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...Cool held Oprah's hand, anyone's hand, for two solid minutes - and escorted her down the block to the Broadway Theatre, for The Color Purple's opening night, as gawkers behind police barriers cheered the lovely couple. Thus concluded the most highly hyped detente since Sadat and Begin made nice at Camp David in '78. Next week on The Late Show: Cher and Richard Simmons get married, and Dave gives away both brides...
Yolen and Teague, whose How Do Dinosaurs ... ? books are becoming a popular series, begin with a catalog of mealtime malefactions that unfortunately will be familiar, at least in part, to any parent. Belches and makes rude noises. Fidgets and squirms in his chair. Bubbles his milk. Sticks beans up his nose. But the question mark is crucial. The authors answer the question of whether a dinosaur really eats this way by saying no, then showing a sequence of model dino decorum at the table: calm, polite and cheerful. "He never drops anything/ Onto the floor./ And after he's finished...
...less be willing to consider the traditionally-liberal pro-gay marriage stance. Earlier this year, the magazine took up the marriage issue “through the lens of divorce rates, not gay marriage, which is where any discussion of the traditional family’s contemporary problems should begin and end,” according to editor Travis R. Kavulla ’06, who is also a Crimson editor. In other words, arguably the most conservative Harvard publication chose to focus on problems with heterosexual marriage rather than unequivocally attack the idea of gay marriage...
...Weather: I’m thankful that it is nearly freezing in Cambridge for the majority of the year. I really didn’t like sun to begin with, and spending my time in 80-degree weather wearing a skirt and tank top these past five days reassured me of that. I’d much rather wear a big puffy coat that makes me look like a marshmallow, and knowing that I might catch frostbite as I walk to class in the snow each day brings added excitement to my life...
...passing games in his career. And that during his senior year for the Crimson in 2004, Fitzpatrick only managed one game in which he threw for more yards than he did on Sunday. In an interview on ESPN radio Sunday night, Fitzpatrick jokingly commented that he hoped people would begin to learn his name now instead of just calling him “Harvard boy.” Although the FOX announcing team of Curt Menefee and J.C Pearson couldn’t immediately get his name straight—introducing him to the national TV audience as Ryan Patrick...