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...cap off their residency, Pig Iron will perform Adriano Shaplin’s “Hell Meets Henry Halfway”, a dark comedy centering on nihilism which is adapted from Witold Gombrowicz’s 1939 novel Possessed...
Some argue that blocking went wrong when the College lowered the cap on blockmates from 16 to eight back in 2000, creating problems for large groups of friends now forced to break into smaller clusters or cut members one at a time. It’s too easy to attribute the stress of blocking season to a certain shallowness—when it comes down to it, picking blockmates is a popularity contest of sorts. Being the odd one out carries a certain stigma, and nowhere can this unfortunate mindset be seen more clearly than in the attitude displayed towards...
...have survived, Kevin Bright, whose older sister Kathryn was stabbed and strangled to death three months after the Otero murders. After lunch on a warm April day in 1974, the Brights came home from taking their sister Karen to the bank. A man in a black stocking cap, camouflage jacket and black gloves was waiting, gun in hand, in the front bedroom. "He told us he was wanted in California and was headed for New York," Bright recalls. "He said all he wanted was money and a car, and he wouldn't hurt...
...they move too quickly and support a bill with painful benefit reductions, the Senate will come along afterwards and opt for another less painful approach leaving House members politically vulnerable. Move too slowly, and House members will be stuck with a Senate bill that might raise the income cap from which Social Security taxes are drawn, which many conservative Republicans view as an unacceptable tax hike...
...rather than poor script writing. By deflowering Marissa, banging Julie even after she blocked him on AIM, and playing golf while wasted, he redefined “baller status” for high-schoolers everywhere. If he would swim to The OC from Portland wearing Speedos and a swim cap or emerge from the pool at one of Cal’s parties (again, in a Speedo and swim cap), all the unreasonable episodes would be forgiven...