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...GORILLA. Timmy, a 497-lb. silverback gorilla from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, left his mate Katie last week for a fling at the Bronx Zoo with four breeding beauties. Animal-rights activists fought the temporary move, but to no avail. They argued that Timmy is being used as a stud pony and not being treated as a "sensitive male." Katie, who is infertile, will be entertained by Oscar, a silverback from the Topeka Zoo, until Timmy returns...
...ways the distant voices echoed the disgust that many Americans felt about the Thomas matter. But in a critical respect, a number of European commentators betrayed their own obtuseness. They depicted the embattled judge as a villain/victim in the tradition of John Profumo, the British Minister of War whose fling with a call girl, and his lies about it to Parliament, cost him his job in 1963. Fleet Street was none too tolerant of human frailty then, nor was it earlier this month when Sir Allan Green, the chief prosecutor for England and Wales, was caught soliciting a prostitute...
Jacinda Townsend '92 of Cabot House attacks the council for doing an inadequate job of planning campus social events, writing of "the spring concert that never was, the spring fling weekend that almost wasn't, and the toga party that might as well not have been...
Lastly, in reference to Templeton's suggestion that the social committee should be disbanded, the hundreds of people who enjoyed the reading period study breaks, the burgers at the Harvard-Yale picnic or the many events at Spring Fling weekend might disagree with the editorial's assertion that "no one cares" about social committee events...
...thinks the Class of '91 faces long-term job troubles. Their plight is purely a result of recession, and they should easily survive a few months waiting tables or typing memos until other employers start hiring again. Still, as they fling their commencement caps skyward, the graduates will surely be silently urging the economy to follow as fast as possible...