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...will be a sad year for lovers of the Mutter Museum calendar, produced since 1993 by the fascinating medical museum in Philadelphia. The award-winning calendar highlighted objects from the museum's collection, including the skeleton of twins fused at the head and a wax model of a patient with syphilitic leukoplakia of the tongue (above). The calendar sold thousands of copies and won fans as diverse as the Las Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Harvard University professor of biology Stephen Jay Gould, who calls them "works of art." The calendars earned as much as $15,000 annually...
...however, Dr. Marc Micozzi, executive director of the college, has canceled the calendar, deciding that it presents the wrong image. Gretchen Worden, director of the Mutter, had hoped otherwise: "Our goal was to promote the museum and the College of Physicians to a wider audience--and we achieved that...
There is a rumor that many long years ago, when Dean Harry Lewis was just a lowly professor of computer science, a student walking by his office heard him mutter, "I'd sell my soul for a new computer science/engineering building." This phrase was followed by a bright flash of light and the unmistakable smell of brimstone wafting out from under the closed door...
Each face carries a grudge. The men mutter and growl and get fall-down drunk. The women wheedle and whine. Or they knit furiously, like Lindsay Duncan in Grown-Ups, as if rehearsing to put her unloving husband's eyes out. Or they throw insults like darts. "Drop dead!" shouts the pretentious Beverly (Steadman) at her husband in Abigail's Party (1977); two minutes later, he does. The hate-filled wife in Home Sweet Home is an adulterer, but infidelity with her husband's best friend gives the woman no more pleasure than anything else in her sorry life. There...
...passerby yelled on her way into a taxi, "Students and faculty need housing too!" The University's interest, in this instance, is also that of the students. Harvard should not give into any hypocritical demands for altruism or false notions of socialistic equality. While Cantabrigians may mutter about fairness, we're not about to retreat to the original position...