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...easy to get the sense these days that you've stumbled into a party where the punch is spiked with some powerful drug that dramatically alters identity. The faces are familiar, but the words coming out of them aren't. Something has happened to a lot of people you used to think you knew. They've changed into something like their own opposite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of U-Turns | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...college bell if another wave was sighted. Late on Monday night, he says, one of the youths rang the bell for fun. There was panic on the hillside, followed by relief and rage when locals realized the young people had been joking. "They were looking for the boys to punch them," says Baul. But false alarm or not, no one in Kukundu is in a hurry to return to town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving the Pacific Tsunami | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...happy to see Chris Rock featured in 10 Questions [March 26]. He has been one of the most consistently funny and honest voices in U.S. pop culture over the past decade. But lately it seems every other punch line is about white people. Does he really think immigration can be reduced to "white people finding a loophole in slavery laws"--or was that a joke? Rock has demonstrated many times that he is smart. He doesn't need to stay trapped in the punch lines of the 1970s. The truth would be funnier and more helpful to us all. Bryce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Apr. 9, 2007 | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

Don’t worry if you miss any of those punch lines: the show is complete with a laugh-track to remind you that the Nazi and angry lesbian references are supposed to be funny...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Half Political, Half Painful | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...second objection—that punching a final club is emotionally taxing to the individual—is a silly one. Harvard students are highly capable of taking care of themselves, having learned to effectively manage hectic course loads and extracurricular schedules. Samuel and company should not delude themselves into believing that these students are too delicate to handle punch season...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Committee: Party Buzz-Kill | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

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