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DIED. DON KNOTTS, 81, rail-thin, bug-eyed comedian famous for his roles as bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and ascot-sporting landlord Ralph Furley on Three's Company; in Los Angeles. Barney Fife was a tiny ensemble part until Knotts turned it into something grander, winning five Emmys in the process. A bid for family-film stardom in vehicles like The Incredible Mr. Limpet fell short, but Knotts was consistently in demand for character roles on sitcoms and in films, most recently lending his voice to Disney's Chicken Little.V...
...relished covering our departing prez. Here, presented for your delectation, are some of FM’s favorite moments: November 8, 2001 An intrepid FM reporter attempted to go trick-or-treating at University President Lawrence H. Summers’ house. Dressed up as a lady-bug and accompanied by a slutty Margaret Thatcher and scantily-clad Chiquita banana, FM banged on Summers’ door and screeched “Trick-or-Treat! Smell my feet! Give me something good to eat!” Sadly, Summers was nowhere to be found, and the FMer went disappointedly home, Larry...
...Mountain View for a crisis, Google has spent months trying to find a successor, or maybe two, to replace departing head chef Charlie Ayers, who once cooked for members of the Grateful Dead. A search committee has been meeting with candidates. We're not talking meat loaf and bug juice. In a recent tryout, the executive chef from an acclaimed area restaurant prepared sugar-pie pumpkin lasagna and cedar spring lamb chops...
...separate universities, so poor is our institutional memory about student life. So to the residents of Cabot House, I say: fear not, as you are not alone in your suffering. My roommate has recovered fully, life has moved on, and your experience is trivial compared to the Cabot House bug of 2011. JOHN E. RASKIN ’03 New York, N.Y. January...
...financial burden can be too much. "Sometimes families go into debt to buy this gold for the weddings," says Kondababu. "Sometimes families get broken up by gold." Economists argue that the gold bug has other pernicious effects. If the money used to buy gold was invested in banks or stocks, rather than being locked up in a non-productive asset, it would boost India's GDP significantly, they say. But old ways of thinking die hard. Gold is seen by many as a safe haven in an uncertain world. "So many banks fail and close their doors, and ordinary people...