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While a little tongue-in-cheek humor can bring new perspectives to an issue, Allison A. Melia's editorial notebook trivialized an issue that many Harvard students, contrary to our poor turnout at the protests, actually feel strongly about...
With her bubbly laugh and serene blue eyes, it's hard to imagine that anything terrible ever happened to Katherine Tarbox. "I wouldn't trade my life for anything," says the round-faced 18-year-old as she sweeps her wispy blond hair off her cheek and snuggles into the dark green living-room sofa in her home in New Canaan, Conn. Yet this is the same girl who, at the age of 14, found herself alone in a Texas hotel room with a 41-year-old pedophile she first met in an AOL chat room about six months earlier...
Advancing age and the AIDS-related deaths of friends--"my everpresent dead"--figure prominently in these poems, but so does Gunn's humorous touch. In "Blues for the New Year, 1997," he notes, with tongue-in-cheek stoicism, "I'm sixty-seven/and have high blood pressure,/and probably shouldn't/be doing speed at all." When a male acquaintance appears at his door, disheveled and asking for a night's rest, the inquiring poet notes: "You don't feel anecdotal,/Give me a weary grin, And eat three plates of Total." Seeing a renowned bar brawler in his decline, Gunn...
...Burton, in his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, says he thinks other factors may have impeded his move to establish the respect of the council...
...responses were also tongue-in-cheek...