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...latter, Borat and his producer think that the elderly Jews have turned themselves into cockroaches, and throw money at them desperately in an attempt to escape with their lives. The two German grad students next to me at the screening laughed a little less loudly at these jokes...
...Several professors spoke against the motion, including Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. He strongly criticized the proposal, saying, “Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” Professor of German Peter J. Burgard went further, claiming that required evaluations would “undermine a strong tradition of faculty self-governance in the area of teaching...
...Vietnam POW Michael Santini is called back to Washington to take his place and play the hero (unsurprisingly, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives the book a glowing endorsement). A Russian Mafia boss kills his president and sets his sights on the throne. He colludes with a brainy German gangster and a rogue Chinese general who’s planning a coup and may have tortured Santini in Vietnam. And did I mention the inhumanly beautiful Israeli assassin with whom Santini is romantically involved...
...Crimson reported earlier this month on several large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art on campus including “Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art” at the Fogg Museum which ended Oct. 15 and “German Art of the 1980s from the Heliod Spiekermann Collection,” at the Busch-Reisinger Museum which runs through...
...those days sacred to Catholics and other Christians. The Greeks, Romans and ancient Northern tribes so revered their gods that they named every day of the week after them (Sunday for the sun god, Monday for the moon god, Tuesday for the Nordic god Tyr, Wednesday for the Germanic god Wodin, Thursday for Thor or (the equivalent of Jupiter), Friday for the German goddess Friga (Venus) and Saturday for the Roman god Saturn. Five of the first six months of the year honored various gods (Janus, Mars, Maia, Juno) and religious rituals (the period of purification known as februum). Julius...