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Chao said some members of the board found the pun prospects of `WISH' alluring nonetheless...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Groups Ponder Name Change, Post-Radcliffe | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...Pun intended...

Author: By S. R. Hornblower, | Title: MONICA'S HARVARD NEMESIS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Christ's sacrifice on the cross. The Chick and B.C. were now drawn in white because "His blood has...made us white as snow." In the strip's last balloon, B.C. says, "I stand corrected," which is part of a conversation he has been having, but also a powerful pun: they have been "corrected" insofar as Jesus' blood has washed away their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preach It, Caveman! | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Only Ireland can celebrate Maewyn Succat, a.k.a. St. Patty, better than Boston. And besides just being gross, kissing John Harvard's toe doesn't quite carry the cache of kissing the Blarney Stone. Luckily (no pun intended), computer technology can help: start your St. Patrick's Day observance by exploring a next-best computer simulated Blarney-smooching experience at the Top O' the Morning Web site in the St. Patrick's Day Webring. It's hygenic and may bring good luck! http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/2142/ StPat.html. FREE...

Author: By St. Paddys, | Title: WEDNESDAY MAR 17 | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...herhand and, looking directly at Golden, asked "Isthat you on the cover?" Golden chuckled in obviousenjoyment as he told this story at the Bostonreading and wondered aloud whether "it was me on agood day or a bad day?" He then added that thename of the supposed translator was a pun,"Haarhuis" substituting for "whore-house" inrecognition of the darker side of the geisha'sworld. "Arnold Rusoff," far from endowing aprofessorship at NYU, is actually a dear friend ofGolden's, eager for his 15 minutes of fame...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, | Title: THE BOOK: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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