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...technical school, the target of the meeting was Tao Feng, the former chief accountant of our office. After several hours of speeches denouncing Shell and the ''running dogs of imperialism,'' Tao Feng was led into the room wearing a tall dunce cap made of white paper with COW'S DEMON AND SNAKE SPIRIT written on it. (In Chinese mythology, these are evil spirits that can assume human forms to do mischief. Mao had first used this expression during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to describe the intellectuals, many of whom were sent to labor camps for having taken...
...hibernate in July,” he quipped.The final act, Nathan J. Dern ’07, had a delivery not unlike Mitch Hedberg’s, and was a good finish to a thoroughly rousing night.The show itself was one of the first of its kind on campus. Demon Magazine has previously hosted a comedy show during stand up weekend, and earlier this year, Ingber helped organize a Comedy Night in Winthrop House, but this was the first appearance of Ingber and Greenbaum’s new group: the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society (HSUCS). Say the acronym...
...eighth semester, and league rules prevent him from taking an extra semester for anything other than academic reasons, despite the fact that he is eligible to compete for a full year in the eyes of the NCAA. Cusworth’s unfortunate predicament is a reminder of the major demon that has pursued him ever since he came to Cambridge in the fall of 2002. The plague of injuries began Cusworth’s sophomore year, when a preseason stress fracture of his right foot prevented him from playing in a single game. Cusworth withdrew from the college...
Last weekend, India celebrated the Hindu holiday of Diwali, the Festival of Lights. It celebrates the triumph of good over evil and remembers, among other things, the return of Lord Rama following his epic and victorious struggle with the demon king Ravana. Grateful followers, the story goes, lit oil lamps to show Rama's way home in the darkness. Perhaps they also whooped and set off loud explosions, because the Festival of Light could just as easily be the Festival of Noise...
...there’s pressure for "Now, now! Give it to us live!" You don’t have time to go dig. Digging is the big thing. Katherine Graham [head of the Post during Watergate], she recapped [Watergate]: "keep laughing, keep digging, keep loving—beware the demon pomposity...