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...Brown’s 90-82 home victory over the Crimson last season, Nuualiitia, with seventeen points and fifteen rebounds, and Etheridge, with eighteen points and fourteen boards combined to dominate the paint. Etheridge makes his presence known defensively, too—he led the Bears last season with 38 steals...
Mary had been instructed to tell each of us when or fifteen minutes of fame would occur, which she dutifully did. My fifteen minutes will occur abroad, in recognition of my humanitarian work. (If Mary had been told to tell us when we’d end up in jail, I fear that the reading might have been kind of different...
Rebecca Jeschke, Liza Velasquez and I had a great time working on the final year of What Is To Be Done?, and were disappointed to see it abolished in favor of the stupidly-named Fifteen Minutes. We covered many interesting stories, expanded the length of the magazine and got a broader base of writers to write stories. Advertising revenue also increased. But no good deed goes unpunished, and the name was changed without any input from...
Riots broke out, famine spread and leaders were deposed—but not while we in charge of Fifteen Minutes...
Either things got better, we gave up on not being obsessively self-referential, we started drinking more, or we proved that you can fool some of the people most of the time, and that at Harvard, those people read Fifteen Minutes. I lean more to the first three—and Prof. Irv DeVore (I think we had three stories that featured him prominently, if not solely)—can’t ignore the possibility of the fourth, and wish sometimes that we had had another year to figure...