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...similarly harrowing process. The idea that becoming assistant editor of a college newspaper or joining the business board of a humor magazine demands such a stressful process is ludicrous. But kids have such an inflated sense of themselves, their lofty positions over their peers, that they indulge in needless abuse. Compers of the Lampoon’s literature board—the writers—meet with established ‘Poonsters at “office hours.” The metaphor is telling. The people who make these organizations’ processes such a pain aren?...
...these basic truths, in many respects the rally was preaching to the choir. Aside from a few emotional outbursts soon after the bombing, all of our leaders condemn acts that smack of “indiscriminate violence,” and unlike the terrorists, none of them support the needless killing of innocents. Who would be opposed to “a reasoned, just and forward-looking response” to our national tragedy? The important question is what responses are reasonable, what actions are just—and on this question, the speakers were silent. In order to affect...
...informal audition for the part of Jimmy the pool boy, who had all of two lines. Despite my performance as the Mysterious Man in Into the Woods junior year of high school, my acting lacked serious experience and needless to say, I did not get the part. However, Daren still invited me to come as an extra. So, last Sunday I traveled to Newton to be a part of Exclusive, with the desire to see how films are created and the vain hope of being in a movie. Here is a diary of my 15, er four, minutes of fame...
...Barry’s nuclear bomb on a plane novel, are indefinitely on hold, the ending of Men In Black 2 is being rewritten, advertisements for Spiderman and The Last Castle are being revamped, and all films set in New York (Serendipity, Streets of New York) are being retooled. Needless to say, Jackie Chan’s next project, Nosebleed, which concerns a World Trade Center window washer who uncovers a terrorist plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty, is beyond saving...
This is also, needless to say, a moment of truth for President George W. Bush, the Man from Midland, elected by the barest of electoral margins and held in contempt by so many (especially here at Harvard). His presidency now will be judged not on budget surpluses or prescription drug benefits, but on his response to this sudden trial by fire. Bush has suddenly become a wartime president—and this is a war, make no mistake, one that began when America first stretched out its hand to support the state of Israel, and has continued through Lebanon...