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...implications are my bread and butter." A confessed iconoclast, he likes nothing better than to take aim at major targets. Gould links that saintly man of the cloth and science, Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, to the infamous Piltdown hoax (the faked fossil, says Gould, was apparently a youthful prank by Teilhard), and displays irreverence for even his great hero Charles Darwin. Says Gould: "If I have one special ability, it is as a tangential thinker. I can make unusual connections...
Maybe it's just beginner's luck--though more likely a tribute to the revamped Harvard track program. Whatever the reason, Prank Haggerty, in his first year as director of the Harvard track squads, has attained almost every goal he set for his teams at the outset of the year...
Students from several campus groups at the University of Pennsylvania staged a candlelight march earlier this month to protest an April Fool's prank involving the hanging of a female mannequin from a central campus flagpole...
...prank last December during the winter Phools' week, an aspiring Poonster interrupted a lecture by Professor Robert Coles to mock him for several minutes. Lampoon officials later apologized to Coles...
...another possible Lampoon prank, three anonymous phone calls were made to The Crimson's newsroom in rapid succession...