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...from the balcony and loudly cheered each time a presenter mentioned the night’s theme: “redundancy.” The night also included a three-part opera entitled “Redundancy, Again,” as well as various “Scientific Demonstrations?? and other humorous skits. Marc Abrahams, the event’s lamé donning emcee, mingled with a host of others—including Nobel Prize Winners William Lipscomb and Benoit Mandelbrot—onstage. At one point, two lucky audience members won dates with the octogenarian Nobel...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ig Nobel Inspires Zany Fun | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...Demonstrations??they’re very symbolic, they rarely accomplish anything towards your goal,” Barnhill says, looking back on that evening. “But it gets people on board and it establishes an environment of action, and I think that was important because so often we settle things with discussion...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 1969 Still a Memory | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...wounded at least 18 others. The farmers had gathered peacefully to protest city and township corruption. Then, on Wednesday, a Beijing factory worker named Chi Shouzhu was arrested as a pro-democracy “counter-revolutionary.” He will be imprisoned not for inciting pro-democracy demonstrations??not even for promoting democracy—but for printing out information from a pro-democracy website on a friend’s computer...

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Misplaced Priorities in China | 4/25/2001 | See Source »

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