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...newly-instituted ban on beer kegs at Princeton University has sparked a powder keg of student reaction...
Steven V. Mazie '93 and Philip M. Rubin '93, founders of Jerk magazine, beat a metal keg while chanting, "Jerk magazine, Neil Rudenstine." For the sake of the rhyme, they mispronounced the name of Harvard's 26th president...
...only doing what is expected of a top dog in a vicious sport. A fighter's business, which may also be his pleasure, is hurting people; because it is the public's pleasure too, he is paid for his work. It would be nice if this walking keg of testosterone believed that what he does is just a job, a dispassionate display of skill, and that his ferocious aggression is merely an attitude to be shucked along with his mouthpiece after the final bell. Nice, but not likely...
...rivalries unnerves many in Europe, but Yugoslavia's turmoil today is important -- and dangerous -- mostly to its own people and its nearest neighbors. When reports of fighting in Slovenia reached Washington, Secretary of State James Baker fell back on some of the old terminology. "It is truly a powder-keg situation," he said. Actually, while bloodshed in Yugoslavia is tragic and unnecessary, this time it does not threaten to ignite a world...
...examples given above should give some idea of how ludicrous it is to propose a "more correct" way of celebrating Irish culture. But since Ms. Zaleskas insists that a mere keg of beer is inadequate to express her pride in her Irish background, I would like to remind her of the following: First, she is in the United States, not Ireland, and she cannot expect the citizens of this multicultural country, in their appreciation of a foreign culture, to meet her specific guidelines throughout their festivities. Ms. Zaleskas should be honored by the mere fact that Americans annually take...