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...edgiest articles in the anthology is a 1999 essay by assistant managing editor David Skinner arguing for the importance of male chest hair. Observing that a long list of male Hollywood stars, including Kevin Bacon, Tom Cruise, and even Al Pacino, have appeared with shaven chests in recent films, Skinner writes: “The newly prominent hairless man is a sign of the convergence of gay and straight culture.” He concludes with a rhetorical question: “Where can one find reflections of manliness, if everywhere you turn, the American male seems boyish, hairless, shorn...
...piece that—surprisingly—has been left out of the anthology is former books and arts editor Joseph Bottum’s October 2004 article on Harvard constitutional law scholar Lawrence Tribe. Bottum revealed that Tribe, in a 1985 book on Supreme Court appointments, included a 19-word passage that was lifted verbatim—without attribution—from an earlier text by a University of Virginia political scientist...
...compendium does include a 1996 article by the Standard’s books and arts editor, Philip Terzian, assailing the New York Times Magazine’s centennial issue. Terzian takes the Times anthology to task for omitting an array of significant events from the previous century. But he goes over the top when he criticizes the Times anthology for failing to mention—among other examples—the 1913 Armory show of modern art in Manhattan, or the life of early 20th-century Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson...
...former karate instructor-cum-independent filmmaker is on a whirlwind press tour in support of her first full-length feature, “Green Street Hooligans.” The film chronicles the transformation of a mild-mannered Harvard undergrad and Crimson editor Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) into a street-fighting man through his expulsion from school and his subsequent initiation into the ultra-violent world of soccer hooliganism...
...time Marc Abrahams, the editor and co-founder of the humorous science publication AIR and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, took the stage, the audience was already brimming with anticipation...