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Harvard is a complicated institution, however, and it appears the economy hasn’t been so strong lately. So I’m willing to suspend disbelief long enough to accept that even with 20 billion dollars in the bank we don’t have the dough to throw into “un-wiring” up all of Lowell’s entryways. Still, there’s a better way. College policy currently dictates that students are not allowed to install their own access points in their rooms, citing three rough concerns as justification. This...
...hours on Monday, because when I got up at 6:30 a.m. for early morning crew practice, I found my two water bottles discarded on the spot where my purple Raleigh (yes, purple) had been resting against a pylon under the Leverett library. I looked around in vague disbelief for a minute or two, and then I grumbled and trudged my way to the boathouse. My one consolation was that unless my bicycle thief was M.C. Hammer, his outfit would never match his ride...
...tone, for instance, is set during the opening lines, in which Xanthias complains about the size of the large “package” he must carry. There are a number of moments where laughter is motivated not so much by actual amusement as by the shock of disbelief, as none of the jokes are particularly outstanding. Yet this production is incessantly likeable, propelled by the sheer enthusiasm of the cast. The entire enterprise is so cheerfully bizarre and unrepentently unsophisticated—the eponymous frogs, hopping to dreamily surreal live guitar (courtesy of the Makoto Concern), wear goggles...
...punch line. For the most part, the humor of his “fake” news routine lies in the fact that it’s not fake at all…he allows politicians and journalists to mock themselves. My friends and I often blink in disbelief at the footage Stewart collects, saying “this can’t be real.” But, sadly, it always is. The best laughs come when he merely rolls a tape of someone like George W. Bush saying something like, “if you?...
...disbelief is part scientific process, but also perhaps part denial. When Copernicus turned geocentrism on its head, no one wanted to believe that. “People want to know what things are, what things are made of. We found out we’re in the minority in the universe,” says Challis...