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...likes to upend old notions of inside and out, solid and porous, to say nothing of where windows should be or how comfortable you should feel about standing on one over a 60-ft. drop. What Nouvel is doing with his arms over his head is making a little joke about floating in space, but he looks more as though he were about to take flight. And as it happens, he probably...
...Skis, steak on the electric grill, hot showers, and night skiing." Only someone who has virtually never lived more than 100 miles from the East Coast could concoct a list of such suburban Americana. (For that matter, who anywhere cooks steak on an electric grill?) The book jokes about fisting, mentions a 1961 Kurt Vonnegut story, and offers a Michael Moore fart joke. It's all a little dizzying, but could you imagine such stuff from a humorless hack like Mona Charen...
...write on page 9, "Today's worship of physical perfection is more grotesque than Hitler's notion of the Aryan." But then on page 130, you joke that "The only sort of authority Cindy Sheehan has is the uncanny ability to demonstrate, by example, what body types should avoid wearing shorts in public." So which is it: are we allowed to joke about physical imperfections or is it grotesque...
...check my mail; if my laptop’s charger isn’t nearby, that’s often reason enough to take a stroll instead of peruse my inbox. And while I’m often embarrassed by my errant behavior, as it has become the enduring joke from my friends, there are times where by foolishnesses has become my escape. Irresponsibility has allowed me to disconnect, and I am all the more happy for it. It’s difficult to imagine life at Harvard without the Internet, cell phones, e-mail, instant messengers, and every other...
There is a joke making the rounds in University Hall that the College owes its “fun” budget to a game of tennis. According to a Harvard administrator, outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 are occasional tennis partners, and the two have been known to discuss undergraduate life over the net.Those games and discussions appear to have paid off, as the College has increasingly relied on the Office of the President to fund its undergraduate life initiatives.Summers has used his office?...