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According to the self-proclaimed historian of the Russian bells, resident tutor Luis A. Campos ’99, students were a bit more creative when the Russian bells were originally installed in the 1930s. Using Charles R. Crane—of Crane toilet fame and the man who donated the bells to Harvard—as inspiration, Lowellians organized a simultaneous house-wide flushing to protest the ringing of the bells...
...that it was impossible. Better to leave it and save her from such a shock in a public place. It was a uniquely urban moment that would have been perfectly at home in recent books, "Amy and Jordan" by Mark Beyer and "How Loathsome" by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane. Both contain all of the paranoia, sleaze, danger and irresistible vitality of life on the city's edge...
...Loathsome" (NBM; 110 pages; $13.95), written by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane and illustrated by Naifeh, also chronicles the tawdry poetry of modern urban life, but it in the form a graphic novel. At the same time it happens to be one of the most interesting gay-themed comix to come around in a long while. Set in San Francisco's trans-gendered, drug addict underground, its smart writing and stylish graphics move fluidly between grit and transcendence. Divided into four short stories rather than a single narrative, each chapter features Catherine Gore, a lanky, androgynous lesbian with a drug...
...fetishising of beautiful bodies and costumes with the straight pulp illustration of people shooting up and fooling around. Defying the conventions of "positive" gay literature for something much less correct and therefore more interesting, "How Loathsome" echoes the drug-influenced, hallucinatory work of William S. Burroughs. Both Burroughs and Crane and Naifeh give readers of any sexual variety the excitement of grungy, x-rated kicks while leaving them to ponder larger things like the nature of sexual attraction and self-identity. The book ends in a back alley as Catherine and her drag queen pals snort coke. In an epiphany...
...Bankrate.com shows some good deals, such as one from ING Direct currently yielding 2.10% annually and one at VirtualBank that pays 2.15%. David Yeske, a certified financial planner in San Francisco, points out that high yields from Internet-only banks often come with restrictions, like no paper checks. Peter Crane, vice president at iMoneyNet, also notes that people living in high-tax states like California, New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania might benefit by buying tax-exempt funds...