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...season ago, Cornell swiped the Whitelaw Cup from Harvard’s grasp in the final minute—a collective punch in the jewels that, even in the glow of Saturday’s victory, wasn’t far from this team’s consciousness. “We remember,” Smith said...
...Daily Show with Jon Stewart” is a good example of our sensitivity to context. Unlike other nighttime political humor on the Leno-Letterman-Conan axis, Stewart relies less on jokes that begin with a nugget of news, followed by a made-up punch line. For the most part, the humor of his “fake” news routine lies in the fact that it’s not fake at all…he allows politicians and journalists to mock themselves. My friends and I often blink in disbelief at the footage Stewart collects, saying...
...superiority. So every news channel, editorial writer and sports columnist spent a lot of last week excoriating Todd Bertuzzi, who plays hockey for the Vancouver Canucks. All Bertuzzi did was sneak up behind Colorado Avalanche centerman Steve Moore toward the end of a 9-2 game last week and punch that member of the winning team in the side of the head. Then slam Moore's face into the ice until his neck broke and the blood pooled. Bertuzzi was rearing back for another shot when other players intervened. Some fans at Vancouver's GM Place called the police...
DIED. JOHN WILLIAMS, 35, son of Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. A former minor-league ballplayer and owner of sports-related businesses, he helped turn his father into a posthumous punch line when he had the elder Williams' body frozen at an Arizona cryonics laboratory...
...contrast between frats and clubs can also get hazy. To a first-year woman, a group of frat brothers and a yellow cooler at an open party may not seem too different from their final club brethren—even if that punch comes in a silver bowl, or an envelope...