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...Washington, D.C., an area dominated by St. Alban’s and St. Andrew’s.When Benkreira first laced into his foot stretchers, Wilson’s program was barely on its feet. “When I first joined the team, it was actually kind of a joke,” Benkreira says.But in his junior year, former U.S. Olympian Linda Miller took over the reigns as Wilson’s head coach, and as the crew program got serious, Benkreira got serious about crew.“It’s kind of odd how I came...
...conversation esoteric. “I’ve been writing about the same thing for so long!” laughed one middle-aged alumnus to her companion, referring to her new book and its similarity to her senior thesis. Theses seemed to be a running joke among fellow grads. Just an hour earlier, Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 had asked the panel audience if he could “self-flagellate regarding my thesis a little,” making a disgusted face as he revealed that he wrote about “tragically doomed Southern...
...typewriters will reproduce ‘Hamlet?’” The humor comes from a myriad of literary references, including the chimps’ constant, oblivious mutterings of Shakespearean lines.Playing the three monkeys, Jay D. Musen ’09 was head-on with every deadpan joke while Kathleen E. Hale ’09 and Rory N. Kulz ’08 both brought over-the-top physical comedy to the performance. With such fertile material to work with, it would have been nice to have seen director Pastel take a slightly more adventurous approach. There...
...mean, this movie’s probably going to be awful, but the trailer is really shocking. In two short minutes, we get an incest joke, a premise prominently involving Google Earth™, and a shot of Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick naked in a sleeping bag together. My nether regions are pretty stoked about this trailer...
...headed out for another day of tireless campaigning - which may not be his first love but turns out to be one of his most valuable gifts to a beleaguered Republican Party. The Vice President is so warmly received by the conservative faithful that he is routinely able to joke that his welcome is "almost enough to make me run for office again." He lets the laughter and applause die down and then deadpans, "Almost...