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After the punch, plumcakes and drunken Puritans of the 17th century were toned down during the 18th, revelry switched venues and Class Day became the focus during the 19th century, with its dances and wild scramble around the Class-Day Tree. Commencement unruliness during the 20th century showed a more radical side in the closing years of the 1960s...

Author: By Stephanie M. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Bacchanal to the Banal: 351 Harvard Commencements | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

...Japan's salarymen were once revered as modern-day economic samurai. Today they're like washed-up gunslingers mocked by everyone in the saloon. The jokes at their expense are bad enough: they wear bad suits and smelly socks, their hair is gunky with oil, they behave like drunken buffoons. But cruel jokes are just the start of their torment. The lifetime employment system is over, with unemployment now hitting a 50-year high of 5.3%. And so many middle-aged men have been attacked by teenage boys that police have created a new crime classification: oyaji gari, or geezer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising for A Bruising | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...intense turmoil. While U.S., British and German forces hunt the remnants of al-Qaeda elsewhere in Asia, their football teams will duke it out in the Cup against Muslim countries such as Senegal and Saudi Arabia. Although each host country has pronounced itself ready for anything from bioterrorism to drunken Brits, the prospect of calamity lingers. "Our forces are trained for all kinds of attacks," says Kim Kwang Soo of Korea's National Police Agency Planning Group. To emphasize the point, Korean police have adopted the inspiring slogan "Orderly World Cup, Safe World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cup Preview: We are the World | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...stunning testimony saying that police tried to trick him into confessing to the murder in a Boston hotel room in 1992. Investigators recruited Littleton's ex-wife, Mary Baker, to wear a recording device and lie to Littleton, saying he had told her he was the murderer during a drunken blackout. Prosecutors fought to suppress the testimony but Judge John Kavanewsky has allowed most of it. Attempting to debunk Littleton's "confession", Benedict yesterday had Baker read a 98-page transcript of the hotel room conversation, in which Littleton repeatedly denies he killed Moxley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skakel Trial Update: Tough Going for the Prosecution | 5/15/2002 | See Source »

...compact "Dumped" begins with a drunken shag at a party in London. He, Binny, collects abused books for tantalizing revelations about the previous owner. "This is the section with pages torn out," he says of his collection. "These are crammed full of exam notes." She, Debby, runs a used clothing store. Smitten and desperate Binny finds Debby again and they begin a tenuous relationship. Watson has given us two very convincing male wankers in "Breakfast After Noon" and "Slow News Day," but this time it's the snobbish and secretive Debby who provides the friction. "Binny's not boyfriend material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comix About Real World Problems | 5/7/2002 | See Source »

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