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...explorer (a male), the latter objects to the flirtation, giving the excuse, “Well, you’re dead and I’m a very devout Christian.” The female ghost responds, “Well, maybe you could show me a res-er-ec-tion,” delivering wordplay so obvious it would surely make even the most tolerant punsters cringe...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTS TUESDAY: Classic Pudding Kitsch Still Reigns | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...different goal. Henry, the author's surrogate, wants to study art, giving the story a personal verisimilitude that makes "Four Immigrants" not only the first graphic novel, but the first autobiographical graphic novel as well. But the two characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie, the tall, lanky one who spouts aphorisms, and Frank, the short, chubby one, look and act like the Mutt and Jeff of Japan. Unlike Mutt and Jeff, however, Charlie and Fred's difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 2/19/2005 | See Source »

Despite his success and newfound facebook fame, Haut says his glory days are over: “I see about 1,100 facebook group leavings in my future.” When this magazine went to press, his profile had slimmed down significantly. A photo of his, er, hindside remained, as did quotes from funnyman Douglas Adams. But all group memberships had disappeared...

Author: By Michelle Cerulli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Too Haut for thefacebook | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

Wikipedia operates on a revolutionary principle: Any visitor to the site may add to it or edit it. Any visitor can create new articles, change old ones, add pictures or sounds, and so on. As a defense against malicious ne’er-do-wells who cruise around the ‘net with nothing better to do than delete whole pages about Confucius or Kant, the entire revision history of every article—that is, a copy of every version of the article that has ever been posted—is available for perusal alongside the current draft...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Citing Riots | 2/15/2005 | See Source »

...know the differences. There are those students who can wake up at 7:00 in the morning, throw on a pair of shorts and flip-flops (year-round), enthusiastically scoop froot loops, er, fruity ohs into their mouths as they discourse on Kant. And there are those who sleep through their noon classes because they only got three hours of sleep and might still be shaking off the effects of an early-morning bad trip. You know, the Mass. Hall types who occasionally play a little classical music in the ayem versus those guys who lived across the hall from...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: 9:15 Is Just Too Early | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

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