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WINTHROP: Kelley Humbert...
...Kindly Ones is a grandly hallucinatory account of World War II from the point of view of an SS officer named Max Aue. Max is an intellectual and a loner with refined taste in music and literature. As a narrator he reminds one of a chillier, less funny Humbert Humbert. But Max's business isn't raping nymphets. It's racketing around the Third Reich, from Stalingrad to Auschwitz to Hitler's bunker, advancing the cause of Nazi genocide...
...haven’t had a tailgate yet when we’ve had to shut down at 12, so we don’t know how it’s going to impact people,” said Winthrop HoCo Co-Chair Kelley A. Humbert ’10. HoCos and their counterparts at Yale, College Committees, are the only undergraduate groups allotted designated parking space in the student tailgate area. “I’ve heard a lot of people are not even planning on going,” said Rafael A. P. Miranda...
...telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on Nabokov’s ship—Pnin to indifference (against which he cracks), Kimbote to delusion (to which he succumbs), Humbert to lust (which drives him to kidnap and murder). The more forward motion these characters seemed to make, the clearer it became to the reader that they were stuck in the same place. But while Nabokov’s characters were ultimately the victims of their author’s mechanisms, they...
...assisted suicides of terminal patients that are legal in Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands. France's standing law was written in 2005, after a mother and doctor provoked the death of a young man who no longer wanted to live in his paralyzed, virtually shut-in condition. Marie Humbert - the mother of that man - has continued denouncing the law for only allowing the passive act of interrupting life-sustaining treatment. Some 300,000 people have signed Humbert's petition to depenalize active euthanasia...