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...perpetual [enter anti-queer here] page where intelligence and logic fall victim to an endless desire to prove that somehow, people of different sexualities simply deserve ridicule. Of the seven issues from this past year, six of the Salient back pages contain some sort of anti-queer joke unbefitting of political discourse. If Republicans learned anything this past month, it was that anti-gay demagoguery similar to that expounded by The Salient and political talking heads like Ann Coulter is not only despicable, but blatantly abuses all standards of decency. Such ignorance is responsible for dramatically setting back the image...
...butto retreat to their darkened bedroom and wait, often for days, until the agony passed. Doctors could prescribe heavy-duty painkillers, but regular use often triggered even more painful episodes. Making matters worse, friends and co-workers tended to treat headache sufferers as the punch line of a bad joke, as if they were having headaches on purpose to avoid work or sex or some deeply repressed memory...
...ironic that one of the most social spaces on campus is so closely tied to the library, a reminder of the heavy workload that every Harvard student bears. Getting A HeadAlthough the fact that Harvard students love to hang out in their library sounds like a bad joke, this sorry situation might soon change with the opening of the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub, a new, dedicated space in Loker Commons that marks the end of the Harvard social space construction frenzy—at least for now. The Pub’s opening night drew almost...
...most well known, if not the most well known Shakespearean play. How do you approach these two characters? Lois Beckett: I think it’s really hard, especially at the balcony scene because everyone knows it. I used to do it with my friends as a joke at parties...but I was always Romeo because I knew the lines. Chris Hanley: Oh great. Now I can see you mumbling as I say the words. LB: “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Originally I wanted to do it almost sarcastically, to cut against the clich?...
...claimed “Chen@fas.” But cases like his are few and far between, and some addresses end up as slightly embarrassing. Margaret M. Wang ’09 chose “Mmwang.” Wang insists she meant it to be a joke. When asked what their ideal e-mail aliases would be, both Zhao (2) and (mm)Wang said they would have used their full names. “Each name is going to be more unique and more memorable than numbers,” said Wang. According to Sundquist, the measure...