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...listen to his pathetic excuses. No one should be able to undermine the hard work of another by taking the easy way out and passing it off as his or her own. Ambrose should have marked direct quotations in his book, or at the very least made the reader aware that his paraphrasing is similar to that of the original text in his footnotes...
...only a casual reader of The Crimson, write it into your daily schedule. Take the 15 minutes in the morning to scan the headlines on the front, editorial, Real World and sports pages. Send a letter to the editor (letters@thecrimson.com). Call in a news tip (576-6565). Let us know what’s on your mind...
...understand that being named Person of the Year was never meant to be an honor." "Sure," a man from New Delhi offered, "choosing Osama bin Laden would have provoked howls of outrage from an already indignant public, but your principles would have remained unquestioned." And as always happens, readers came up with their own ideas. A Massachusetts reader had an interesting suggestion: "A much better solution than your awkward attempt at circumventing the bin Laden problem would have been to designate Sept. 11 the Day of the Year...
...exists entirely in the moment - instantly obsessed with whatever trend or object passes in front of him. (He will even turn phrases such as "Diflucan Fluconazole," or "Quilted Crystal Jelly Jars," into mantras.) As a result many of the strips demand a similar kind of mysticism from the reader. You must accept that being a joke does not require being a joke. No other strip challenges the reader in such a smart...
...Ironically "Zippy" suffers newspaper reader's ire not because of its poor quality but because of the poor quality of the strips around it. As a victim of diminished expectations, collections of the strip such as "Zippy Annual 2001" eliminate that prejudice. But to me, Bill Griffith's art works best in the absurd and sad context of daily news. In fact, the San Francisco protesters had their fury appeased when the comics page editor announced to the crowed the re-instatement of "Zippy the Pinhead." Following a brief "huzzah" the protesters, in true Zippy spirit, reportedly began shouting "Cancel...