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...last-ditch effort to reassert its relevance in the face of Harvard’s mental woes, the soon-to-be-defunct Bureau of Study Counsel will recommend that all students begin rigorous regimens of primal scream therapy. The Bureau will be vastly misunderstood...
This past Friday, in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the SJC’s ruling from taking effect, gay marriage opponents requested an emergency order from the United States Supreme Court halting the dissemination of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Fortunately, hours after the federal appeals court in Boston denied a similar request, the Supreme Court refused to grant the order. As the fight gets tougher for gay marriage opponents, they continue to cling to deceptive and self-righteous arguments about the sanctity of marriage and the immorality of homosexuality. Yet it remains unclear why the meaning...
Weighed down by their weapons and body armor, the Marines move on toward a second bunker. It is taken out, and within minutes we are pulling back under fire. We run across a field divided by an irrigation ditch. "Get in that f______ ditch!" an NCO shouts. We sink to our waist in the water, scrabbling for grip in the slippery mud. "Get out of that f______ ditch!" the same NCO yells, just as our feet touch bottom...
...along with almost daily missives from debt collectors. One morning the general himself appeared?in military fatigues, frothing at the mouth?and threatened to put me in a coffin. He pulled out a pistol-shape package, brandished it, then drove away. Was it a gun? Or simply a last-ditch attempt to scare...
...looming farewells which also stands at odds to chocolate-box conceptions of a sickly-sweet springtime. Witness the hordes of people teeming through the streets any weekend night in late April and May, emerging suddenly from a long hibernation in their overheated cocoon-like dorm rooms to make last-ditch contact with friends who will disperse all over the globe for the summer break. It’s not just the weather bringing us out of the insulation and into the sun; it’s the sense that this is all nearly over, and months devoid of the curious...