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...this year, no Girl Talk or anyone of his ilk will be in the offing, part of an attempt to cut costs, and, you know, prevent the rally ending in a complete fiasco. Instead, organizers say they will be taking the rally back to “its roots.” Oh, and they’ve also procured a stage that won’t collapse...
Maybe the witches and wizards of the Harvard Quidditch team know a spell to ward off budget cuts. Despite fiscal pressure at the University, Harvard’s competitive Quidditch team recently conjured up a $600 grant—primarily to purchase broomsticks...
Without fail, it seems, Americans are invited to experience the end of the world as we know it on the silver screen every year. This year is no exception—the highly touted apocalyptic vision “2012,” hitting theaters soon, puts a Mesoamerican twist on the conventional doomsday script. Yet though “2012” promises little in the way of a groundbreaking storyline, it promises nevertheless to be a box office hit—for, like all disaster movies, it portrays some of our culture’s most pressing philosophical...
...half decade or so. The trailer is almost archetypal: towering oceanic waves flatten West Coast metropolises, impossibly schismatic earthquakes swallow vehicles in urban centers, and all of humanity resorts to quasi-primal instincts while still maintaining a sense of decency and hope in times of bleak despair. We all know how this ends, of course: Mankind survives another day—at least until next year’s version of essentially the same catastrophic event—and the humbled survivors ultimately learn something about themselves, each other, and the prevailing strength of the human will...
Musing over the prospect of a doomsday forces us to consider the possible parameters of such an event. Would we want to know the exact date, or live in blissful ignorance until the day of reckoning? If the former, how would we prioritize our lives accordingly? If we survive the catastrophe, what would we do with our lives? And would we want to survive it anyway...