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...over 200 years of exclusive tradition, a couple of caveats are in order. This new, open process is not entirely new, nor is it entirely open. From 2001 until 2003, the Pudding was forced to conduct a truly open punch, complete with postering in the Yard, due to its brief stint as an official student organization subject to the College’s anti-discrimination policies. Those earlier efforts make the Pudding’s current project look restrictive by comparison. This spring, the club still punched over 100 students the old fashioned way—though each was told...
...Woods on Friday morning spent more than 13 minutes apologizing for his sexual affairs, while remaining vague on his plans for returning to the PGA Tour. "I do plan to return to golf one day," he said. "I just don't know when that day will be." (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...
...brief performances of the many people John and Virgil encounter are certainly memorable as well. Perhaps the best is delivered by a masked John Cho, who spends his exchange with John engulfed in flames. Likewise, Peter Dinklage’s portrayal of a typical nobody who thinks he’s a big shot gives his character the same kind of sass he displayed as Miles Finch, the “South Pole...
Mason’s stories are brief and flavorful. In a short introduction to the book, he presents his vignettes as recently discovered fragments containing alternative versions of “The Odyssey.” One story has Odysseus (here named “Mr. O.”) living in a sanatorium, where he spends his days trying to remember a distant war. Another has him as Agamemnon’s prized assassin, faced with the unfortunate order of killing himself. Sticking with the pretext of fragmentation, Mason never fully fleshes out the action in each tale...
...story in a number of interviews with British news organizations - a doctor helpfully absented himself so Gosling could do the deed. "Sometimes you have to do brave things and you have to say - to use Nottingham language - bugger the law," the presenter declared in one interview. (See a brief history of assisted suicide...