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...students. The history of one of America’s oldest universities was relegated to three paragraphs halfway down the page. The modesty or immodesty of the members of the Harvard community has always been something of note—on the one hand, the running joke goes, we go to school in Boston or Cambridge when asked, but on the other, everyone knows we’re dying to further specify if the point is pressed. Nowhere is it more apparent than on the Internet, however, that at the very least a peculiar subset of our students, alumni...
...then on, any reference in the script to his fine physical being evokes a storm of laughter. “The characters call each other huge, strong men, and we’re like, ‘you’re really not,’” jokes director J. Jacob Krause about his scrawny actors. “The script is talking about things that don’t really [exist] onstage.”“WELCOME, GENTRY”Nineteenth-century operatic parodies of Gothic literature may sound more like a freshman seminar than...
...doors, shipping trucks), he sees the saying “As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls.” The banal idiom represents so much of what the audience will find wrong with this movie: Ramis tries to make a point, but never explains its meaning, and the joke isn’t funny enough to keep repeating. Hopefully, this will flop and Ramis will learn to refuse scripts so far below his past standards...
...Mirecki said. But John Calvert, managing director of the Intelligent Design Network, said the term “mythology” should not be used in connection with intelligent design since it connotes an idea that is unscientific. “These two courses are just a joke. A theologian and an anthropologist have no place in teaching intelligent design,” Calvert said. Both Hoopes and Mirecki cited their experiences at Harvard as very influential in their respective paths at Kansas. Hoopes, a former resident tutor in Dunster House, credited his work with retired Peabody Professor of Archaeology...
...House of Commons took a jovial turn: The Speaker, Peter Milliken, rose in his black robes to announce that an all-party reception would follow the vote to allow Parliamentarians to "exchange season's greetings." The invitation elicited loud guffaws, because everyone knew it was a dark joke. The only thing seasonal about greetings between the ruling Liberal Party and its main, Conservative opposition has been the frostiness of the exchanges. And now the two sides, with a push from minority parties from the left and right, are launching themselves into what is expected to be a cold, long...