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Last Saturday morning, as demonstrators against a U.S. attack on Iraq trickled onto the lawns next to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., a woman in a cowboy hat and a skull mask worked the edges of the crowd. She handed me a neat, word-processed flier from a stack under her arm. There were no “Muslim terrorists” on the flights on Sept. 11, it said. The whole atrocity was set up by the U.S. government, which directed the planes by remote-control. About ten web addresses followed. I pursued the woman to the next...
...returning from Washington, I told a Harvard friend about the woman in the skull mask. “The extremists are inevitable,” he replied. “That’s why I don’t go to rallies.” Most Harvard students are embarrassed by the trappings of demonstrations and the extremists who frequent them. We practice critical thinking all day. By night, we write response papers ripping apart political theories and literary masterpieces. The earnest “Hey hey, ho ho, war in Iraq must go” of the kids...
...It’s Halloween today, and for Gossip Guy this special time of year always means candied lies, mask-wearing rumors and egg-soaked innuendo...
Halloween sucks because all these kids walk around banging on doors, demanding handouts, and acting like they’re entitled to free candy ’cause they’re wearing a cape and a Batman mask. All of a sudden it’s cool to wander the neighborhood begging for food, and if you don’t give them anything, you’re a jerk. Well, that’s crap. I say you kids are the jerks for making me get up every 15 seconds. Any other night, you could call the cops...
Drugs may offer a temporary solution to migraines, but we need long-term results. Professionals who may help with headaches are chiropractors, dentists and ophthalmologists, to name a few. Let's find the cause, not a method to mask the problem. JEREMY E. BANKOS, D.C. Hawthorne...