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DIED. Bob Hattoy, 56, fiery, influential advocate for the environment and, later, aide to the Clinton Administration on gay and lesbian issues; of complications from AIDS; in Sacramento, Calif. Hattoy, most recently president of California's Fish and Game Commission, famously decried then President George H.W. Bush's "moral blindness" in handling the AIDS crisis in a brief, raw prime-time speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention. The outspoken activist, who opened his '92 remarks by thanking Aretha Franklin, was reassigned to a less visible post after criticizing a proposal Clinton said he'd consider to limit the deployment...
...Unapologetically dancier than older Modest Mouse tracks, “Dashboard” is a simple song that some may find a bit too tailored for radio. But really, this video isn’t about trying to say something new; it’s about fun, friends, and fish. Telling the tragic tale of a retired tidal traveler, the video shows a few old salts recalling their glory days on the ocean over pints of grog. But one yarn seems to top them all: Brock’s story about pursuing the one fish that got away...
...Hana S. Freymiller. Her classmate, Lindsey N. Fix, has a more creative suggestion. “Ben and Jerry’s Fossil Fuel: for small, amphibious babies,” she says. Hopefully, this refers to the chocolate dinosaurs in the ice cream and not some sick Wellesley fish-baby mutation. It seems that Harvard women are of a similar mind. “I would probably go to CVS and get a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Half-Baked,” says Millicent M. Younger ’10. And then...
...Lampoon members captured and held hostage the Sacred Cod that hangs in perpetuity over the House chamber in the Massachusetts State House. This wooden cod’s effigy both symbolizes the importance of fishing to the Bay State’s early economy and serves as an unofficial good-luck-charm to representatives. As a result of its disappearance, Massachusetts state police were forced into conducting a statewide cod-hunt; woebegone representatives refused to legislate without their fish...
...steam in the second and third sets, relinquishing a 3-0 second set lead to fall, 7-6, and then 6-1 in the third.“That guy had just run Chris out of legs, which is hard to do,” Harvard coach Dave Fish ’72 said, commending his team for playing exhausting matches with great gusto and devotion. “Without the legs, it’s like fighting with one arm behind your back. They’re going to get very discouraged and then...