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...late great Andy Warhol once said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." But within that short space of time, so much can happen. What arrives with an air of mystery soon becomes the talk of the town, only to descend into overkill in a matter of minutes. Here we have elucidated the trajectory of fame for a few of the people and things we have been hearing about lately. Yet even as we type, the moments tick away. Ah, the flash in the proverbial...
...Fifteen years. For the past 15 years, detective Mike Thomas (Mar Cartier) has gotten his hair cut eight times a week, just before concert pianist Isabella Czerny is stabbed in the throat with a deadly pair of scissors. One would think he'd have run out of hair by now, and she'd have moved away from the cursed hair salon where Boston's hilarious audience-participation murder mystery Shear Madness...
...example, advocates of house randomization are not addressing differences between the houses that have nothing to do with race, particularly the fact that the Quad houses are fifteen minutes from the center of campus. When first-years worry about the possibility of being quadded, they are not thinking, "Gee, I would hate to live with all of those Black people," or "Gee, I would hate to live with all of those pre-meds." Racial or social characteristics have absolutely nothing to do with such calculations. Geography does...
...room. Is this explosion of fecundity a mere coincidence, or is there an explanation for the disproportionate number of kids who have suddenly appeared in the house? In the interest of pulp journalism and succumbing to a yearning to regress to the Core-free, tricycle-filled years of childhood, Fifteen Minutes gathered ruminations on the Mather House baby boom...
...incompatible with life in multicultural society, which requires freedom of choice not only in lifestyle, but also in after-lifestyle. What we need to cure the ills of society, therefore, is a viable challenge to the hegemony of traditional thought. In a world where people can choose from fifteen flavors of Snapple, one godjust isn't cutting it anymore...