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...have thoroughly enjoyed my tenure as a Crimson editorial columnist. To quote a phrase popularized by Ishmael Reed, "writin' is fightin'," and I've relished the chance to joust with my political and ideological opponents. The negative responses that I sometimes provoked only helped to motivate me. I've received replies ranging from polite criticism to outraged diatribes--even one death threat--but I won't apologize to anyone who I offended because they probably deserved...
...when Carey challenges Broderick to a joust that we see the stormy seas of psychosis on the horizon? Was it when he plays "Dirty Password"--"The adult version of the popular game show"--with Broderick's mother and girlfriend? Or how about the time he sets Broderick up with a girl who later turns out to be a prostitute? Really, there are so many warning signs that our friend The Cable Guy is one big psycho...
...most likely thing that would happen is youmight print an excerpt of it mentioning it's anissue at Harvard," Schauer said. "I don't know ifit would be a good thing for us to take a positionor not, because as an alumni club we're not hereto joust with the school. The next president mightfeel differently...
While Van Leeuwen will spend much time over the next year on the "strip"--the area in which fencers joust--junior Brett Davis will spend his time preparing for the Games off the Florida coast...
...international team of scientists based in Germany today revealed the creation of an as-yet unnamed element by bombarding lead and nickel atoms in an accelerator -- bringing the periodic table's total to 110. The creation of this new man-made element took ten years and became a competitive joust between the group based in Germany -- which eventually won -- and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, working with Russian colleagues at a research center in Dubna, Russia. Now comes the hard part: finding an appropriate name.Post your opinion on theScience & Technologybulletin board...