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...Researchers are linking Viagra to blindness. So now, aging baby boomers are ending their adulthood asking the same question they did when they began it: 'Can I do it just till I need glasses?'" --WILL DURST, stand-up comic and TV and radio commentator

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Jun. 20, 2005 | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...wildly eclectic mix of participants on the panel, convened at the annual publishing industry tradeshow Book Expo America, included indie creators Adrian Tomine (Optic Nerve) and Charles Burns (Black Hole) with superhero/pulp auteur Frank Miller (Sin City) and novelist-turned-superhero-comics writer Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis), who sat next to comic autobiographer and movie celebrity Harvey Pekar (American Splendor.) Thanks to Pekar's irrepressible personality, things got a little warm when he denounced superhero books as "escapist" and worthless when there were more important things to spend your energy on like "getting Bush out of office." Meltzer later gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heavy | 6/11/2005 | See Source »

...ECAC Rookie of the Year Award speech has become the stuff of lore in the Harvard women’s hockey program for its aimless rambling and unintended comic effect...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Nicole Corriero '05, Hockey | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...some students, “Larry” provides comic relief, but to others, he has become a poster child of sorts for free speech...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Emerges As Student Icon | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...allegations of police brutality swept the Harvard campus, following the arrest of 28 undergraduates who were charged with disturbing the peace. The students were detained after they hosted a rally in Harvard Square, mocking the upcoming presidential election and declaring Pogo the Possum, the main character in a popular comic strip, their favored candidate...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Duehay Dedicates Life to Cambridge | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

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