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...Protesters plan to "lay siege" to London's financial institutions, according to G-20 Meltdown's website. There's even the promise of a "Banquet at the Bank" and the chance to "feast on a rare delicacy: bankers' brains!" Features like that are all meant in jest, says Michael Rainsbro, a spokesman for the group. "It's April Fool's day," he says. "Do you seriously think we're gonna go down and eat bankers' brains? Come...
...function of celebrity is to alert the rest of us to hard truths, to teach us the lessons of love and grief. Among these is the cruelest jest of fate: a child's death that precedes his or her parents'. That instructive obscenity slammed home today with the death of Natasha Richardson, a distinguished British actress who was a third-generation star of the noted Redgrave acting clan and the eldest daughter of the great and controversial Vanessa Redgrave. Richardson died two days after a seemingly unremarkable fall while skiing in Quebec. She lost consciousness and within 24 hours...
...window, the prospect of river views and convenient access to the Square was tantalizing. The Union dormite-to-Quadling story is equivalent to a rags-to-new-rags tale. Friends who had been placed in a dumpy river House insisted I was welcome to move in with them. They jest, I thought. Inspired by the likes of Oprah and the Pope, I spent the summer contemplating the positives of Quaddage. I recalled my tour of Pforzheimer House on that fateful March day. Everyone in PfoHo did seem quite happy about their unfortunate circumstances. I’d never seen such...
...irreparably, over. Summing up the entirety of a relationship with a mockingly cliché broken-heart icon, Facebook forces this intensely private and vulnerable moment into the realm of public interrogation and imbues it with the disingenuous and impersonal tone of an e-mail. Although usually uttered in jest, the statement “it’s not real until it’s on Facebook” increasingly offers an accurate description of reality. Solidified in the digital universe, a committed relationship status serves as an explicit pledge of fidelity and a safeguard against unwanted come...
...sexual regard with her search for the spotlight. “All eyes on me, in the center of the ring,” Britney both describes and demands over the sound of whip cracks. Whether or not her self-description as a circus freak is made in jest is both unclear and beside the point. Britney will do whatever it takes to get the attention she seeks. But it is with “If U Seek Amy” that Britney reaches the climax of her carnal-quest. The not-so-thinly veiled euphemism of the title does...