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Instead of studying the healing arts, Meyer sought to find a community like the Lampoon—one where he was surrounded by others who had the same quasi-fanatical interest in humor. He continually sought out such an environment during the eighties—writing for such programs as NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and “Late Night with David Letterman...
...Then, of course, there's the current North Korean nuclear drama?with the latest twist unfolding in Beijing just last month. After months of equivocation, China, North Korea's last remaining quasi-ally, consented to join the U.S. in talks with North Korea about Pyongyang's nuclear violations. Beijing graciously agreed to host the meetings and committed Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the deliberations. The U.S. sent Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly. And the North Koreans? They sent a worker bee: Li Gun, deputy director general of their Foreign Ministry's American Affairs Bureau. Officials of that rank...
...need is money and lots of it. To that end, I’m getting a leg up on my future competition by forming a political action committee (PAC)—read: “slush fund”—to cull the assets from various quasi-legal business ventures (selling fake underage IDs to middle-aged women, selling Tony Robbins motivational tapes to under-motivated people and operating the most lucrative midget-only casino this side of the Rio Grande, to name a few). This PAC, combined with sizable donations from rich Harvard kids...
...Blanks’ played the Collective at Quincy House, and we opened up the show dressed up as Alvin and the Chipmunks and playing the Chipmunks’ theme song to seventy quasi-drunk students. It was really gross and sweaty...
...insults (“You’ll be begging for hippies to take over your office when we’re done with you!”) and insulting juvenilia (see illustration of Summers, paunch out, barraged by tennis balls) from the staff of a shoddily distributed and quasi-pornographic student publication. As we noted in a moment of bitter self-reflection during week three...