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With Poonsters on their way to New York in pursuit of the ibis, the Crimson editors contacted the Russian embassy and arranged for a private exhange on Monday morning...
...Updike persisted in his pursuit of the ibis, telling the rival newspaper, “The Crimson pranksters seem to have forgotten the rights of property. It’s deplorable that they’ve carried college jokes into the arena of international relations...
Peter Kielland's "Fish" combines the absurdity of "The Octopi" with the sweep of "Leviathan." The title character, a fish with feet, wanders through the ages, mostly in terror and under pursuit. He begins at the dawn of man and witnesses the arrival of aliens who zap the dumb apes with higher consciousness. Uninterested in such goings on he goes to sleep and somehow wakes up in the early twenty-first century. Soon he goes from barroom oddity to household pet to valuable commodity. Escaping it all, he falls asleep and wakes up during the apocalypse where he soon becomes...
...first four boat, which came in third at the Sprints behind Cornell, who didn’t receive an invitation to NCAAs, and Brown, has been putting in hours on the Charles tightening up its mechanics in pursuit of higher ratings and better speed...
...great supply of Dominican cigars, and you can’t sleep for a day after having one of those. For many of his graduate students, including me, he’s the whole reason we stayed in economics and saw it as a worthwhile, fun and useful pursuit,” Sacerdote wrote...