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Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America David Carrasco called her a "deeply valued member" of the anthropology department's archaeology wing, mentioning her "bright humor...
It’s a hazy memory: there are flashes of a crowded N.J. Transit train, glimmers of a vantage point high above the 20-yard line, and echoes of a brassy fight song. Most vivid are the Eion Hu jokes. Childish stuff, the kind of humor a 10-year old could revel in:“Hu scored that touchdown?”“Yeah.”“No, who was it that scored?”“Hu!”It was a sunny Saturday afternoon at the old Palmer...
...precocious melancholy, the calling to literature, and the political necessity of open communication. “This book is full of slices of life, things that I have experienced,” he said. Pamuk read aloud a cluster of short lyrical essays originally written for the Turkish political humor magazine “Oküz” (“Ox”). “I’m Not Going to School,” a gently sardonic dramatic monologue, detailed a child’s dislike of school (“The teacher gives...
...planted trees on the Mt. Auburn Street island outside the Lampoon Castle. A Harvard University police officer saw James A. Powers Jr. ’08—an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—in the process of cutting down trees at about 4:45 a.m., said Cambridge Police spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello. Powers ran from the scene holding a handsaw, having slashed partway through the bases of three trees. He was chased by the officer and held until Cambridge police...
...daily traffic snarls caused by blocking off some of the city's main arteries so that the 2,000-plus delegates' black limousines can shuttle back and forth from their hotels to the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square is enough to test anyone's sense of humor. But when the meeting's fourth day dawned to blue skies and sunshine, one Beijinger, who didn't want his name used for obvious reasons, joked that the absence of the dirty gray cloud of polluted mist that typically hangs over the city must have been organized for the meeting...