Word: parkes
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After 300 some-odd years and hundreds of Crimson scrutinies, everything there is to know about living at this institution is known. Thousands of students have taken the classes and lived in the dorms and taken the red line to Park Street. Upperclass students dutifully pass the wisdom down to first-years, supposedly doing them a great service by allowing them to learn from other people's mistakes. But any new student who blindly follows everyone else's advice will likely have a rather boring time...
...opted for the Sicilian defense earlier this week in an online match against Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov. The contest, which Microsoft grandiosely bills "Kasparov vs. the World," began Monday in New York when Kasparov moved a giant Pawn to E4 on a 400 square-foot chessboard in Bryant Park. Back in cyberspace the World, aided by a panel of chess champions hired by Microsoft, had 24 hours to respond. The Microsoft Network, which is hosting the match, did not say how many people voted in the first round, though the company said it expected hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions...
...only take a punk for so long. Eventually he's going to chew on your roll of tinfoil, and your love affair will end. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, TV's only true punks, have done something to irk almost everyone. After their blistering success with South Park two years ago, the duo did the following: concluded a heavily promoted South Park cliffhanger with farting stick figures in place of the regular characters; directed a short movie starring Stone's dancing penis; produced a news show staffed by people with Down syndrome; released Orgazmo, a movie about...
They seem just as thoughtful about most of their transgressions, all of which, except perhaps BASEketball, they still find funny. Orgazmo, which was written before South Park, they say is funny if thought of as a guerrilla film to be shown at Sundance to annoy local Mormons. The Down syndrome tape, which was recently purchased by the BBC, is funny, they say, not because of the newscasters but because of the uncomfortable reactions people have when dealing with the disabled. And the dancing penises? It's just that they still think dancing penises are funny...
...they admit they refuse to compromise. "It's not that we don't care about our careers. We're just not insane about our careers like some people here are," says Parker. "We know this is going to end. I don't want to be 55 and doing South Park...