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...comics formed a quasi-union, the Comedians for Compensation, and held meetings. The first one was mass chaos, says Dreesen, "Everybody's talking at the same time. Gallagher's yelling, 'Why don't we burn the fucking place down!' It was insanity." David Letterman was there, along with his good friend George Miller, who was particularly outraged because his mother used to work as a bookkeeper for Mitzi Shore - and thus knew how much money she was socking away. Leno came too, though Letterman thought he made something of a spectacle of himself. "Jay, bless his heart, couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy at the Edge Excerpt | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...group: Iraqi police, Pesh Merga, Badr corps. Most Iraqis have two ID's, one [so they can pass for Shi'ite] and one [so they can pass for Sunni]." The checkpoints serve at least one purpose, says Sheikh Ali, the Shi'ite CLC Godfather of Saha market: the guards burn the neighborhood's trash at night to keep warm. "The goats are starting to complain about that," he jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Track of Iraq's Gunmen | 1/27/2008 | See Source »

...problem - especially among women and older passengers - happens at the top of the slide. People hesitate or try to sit down before sliding. If everyone would jump instead, as flight attendants will scream at you to do, the evacuation could go 50% faster, Johnson says. Since a fire can burn through the fuselage on an airplane in 90 seconds, faster is much, much better. When everything works right, slides are built to handle 70 passengers per minute. Many now have two lanes. To see how fast - and scary - the slide can be, check out this video of an evacuation drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Escape Down an Airplane Slide | 1/23/2008 | See Source »

...claim physical and mental incompetency. 11) Get too friendly with the squirrels in the yard—rabies is the new scabies. 12) Have your friends duct tape you to the giant magnifying glass in the Science Center and claim you were ambushed by overachieving premeds. 13) Burn holes into your T-shirt, douse yourself with water and claim you just prevented a case of spontaneous human combustion. 14) Stage an accident involving superglue, bare skin, and a furniture item (toilet seat not recommended). 15) Remember, if all else fails, flunking finals is not a disaster—it?...

Author: By Sha Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Ways to Get Out of Finals | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

Whether you’re a Peer Advising Fellow who was just handed a crisp $500 check or just have some cash to burn, there are a few ways you can squander it around Cambridge: spend a night at the Charles Hotel and treat a few friends to brunch at Henrietta’s Table, or buy a handful of socks at the Andover Shop. But for everyone who wants to escape the memories of finals haunting the Square, you can blow it all on an exotic intercession trip. FM’s trawled the net to compile five...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Your Groove Back For Under $500 | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

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