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...they might, Square Residents cannot forget Real Taco. Painful images of its mercifully brief stay still fester in our minds—the liquid guacamole squirting from ketchup bottles, the inexplicable mélange of salad bar leftovers masking a meager amount of grey chicken and the universal look of shock and anger prompted by the bill...
...hold a special place in America's collective imagination. At what other time in history did Hershey bars and nylon stockings--both in short supply during World War II--wield such transformative powers? The optimism was eventually shattered by the disillusionment of Vietnam and Watergate, but for a brief period America was the land of possibility...
...brief history: Brown's first series, "Yummy Fur" appeared during a surge in the popularity of black and white, independent comix. Collected as the howlingly funny and surreal graphic novel "Ed the Happy Clown," those early issues were canonized as a highlight of 80s graphic literature. Then Brown did something unexpected: He radically changed the format of "Yummy Fur," using it for an autobiographical exploration whose nakedness caused many fans to cringe and slink away. Still, Brown soon found himself leading an "autobio" trend in the medium. Never one to stick to trends, after an aborted fictional project that featured...
...National Assembly, and while voters are currently more focused on the impeachment crisis surrounding President Roh Moo Hyun, Iraq might be the first big test for the postelection government, regardless of who leads it. Already, the public mood is turning against deploying more South Korean troops, especially after the brief kidnapping of seven missionaries last week. These evangelicals?part of a band of some 150 Korean Christians spreading their Gospel throughout the Middle East, according to the Korean NGO Global Civic Sharing?were stopped at a checkpoint early on April 8 and accused by a group of Iraqis of being...
...taking only a pitiful two-day break at Thanksgiving for a vacation that is barely long enough for us to catch our breath. In December, we return home each year for a Winter vacation that is consistently shorter than the holidays enjoyed at our peer institutions, and even that brief respite is burdened for Harvard students with the task of writing papers and the prospect of facing exams upon our return to Cambridge. When we finally take our exams in mid-to-late January, a month or more has often passed since we were last in class...