Word: loudnesses
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...Lampoon's conduct is inexcusable, certainly. The editors of the magazine seem to believe that their building is a privileged enclave where they can harass their neighbors and break the law with impunity. Adams House residents have had to deal with loud parties at the Lampoon all semester. The magazine staff, presumably all decent people, have nevertheless been incredibly inconsiderate to their neighbors, and only after Associate Dean David P. Illingworth '71 met with Hely did the Lampoon quiet their parties...
...unusual for any family members to acknowledge that the new baby has no resemblance at all to Shirley Temple, and sometimes decades have to pass before that acknowledgment can be spoken out loud. When my grandfather was a very old man, he told me, apropos of nothing, about visiting the hospital when I was born: "I came home and told my wife, 'The baby is awful looking.' She said, 'He'll be o.k.' I said, 'No, he looks like a fish. It's a shame. Such nice people.'" At first, I thought "such nice people" was an oddly detached...
...guns [NATION, May 15], to simply blame the gun is a cop-out. Few parents take the time to explain the seriousness of a gun. When I was young, my father took me to a target range and under close supervision allowed me to fire a gun. That loud bang, the "kick" of the gun and the fact that I couldn't even hit the target taught me a more valuable lesson--respect. RICHARD L. BURT DeBary...
This is the season of legacy for Bill Clinton, and that means photo opportunities. The president arrived in Portugal Tuesday to kick off a seemingly haphazard European farewell tour - Lisbon, Aachen, Berlin, Moscow, Kiev - and immediately began to hit the loud notes of seven years of seemingly haphazard foreign policy. Judging by the agenda, they must be: global trade, "third way" governance, humanitarian intervention in Africa, global trade again (how many presidents take their secretaries of State and Commerce on the same trip?) and one voodoo-defense leftover from the Reagan years, the missile defense system. And while Clinton talks...
...news that a braying donkey had kept her awake all night and had to be forcibly removed by a security guard. "There are a lot of donkeys here," says Verbinski, "but the problem with that story is it really gives the shaft to the roosters, who are just as loud...