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Last Thursday marked the launch of Harvard’s newest student publication, “Saturday Night: Untold Stories of Sexual Assault at Harvard.” The first issue to appear at Harvard contains various poems and brief narratives from anonymous authors that reveal chilling, first-hand accounts of sexual assault. Such a collection of stories insinuates that this kind of crime is much more prevalent than the average student would believe, which is exactly what the editors had in mind. “Sexual assault does happen at Harvard,” says Saturday Night editor Azeemah...
...don’t think it’s fair to Conan O’Brien to compare him to a 22-year-old guy that’s written one book and lives with his mom,” he says, but with a book that reveals the hilarious side of real life, it may be a comparison that is well deserved.“I think a lot of the jokes that I love and a lot of my favorite joke writers tend to write about serious feelings and fears that they have,” Rich says...
...take that type and put him in an action movie--something, he says, like Dustin Hoffman's character in Marathon Man. Or like the lead in the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, which he lost to Emile Hirsch. Or, and this is when his nerdiness does finally, yes, reveal itself, the kind of action comedies that Harrison Ford did. "Like when he's talking to Princess Leia--that Han Solo attitude!" he says. "Like 'Listen, sister: Stop bitching!'" I'm a little afraid he's going to wave a fake light saber at me. And, worse yet, that I'm going...
...government believes that use of the scanner will greatly improve airline safety. A full body X-ray scan can reveal carefully concealed plastic weapons or liquid explosives that metal detectors miss. A 30-second scan in place of a pat-down or strip search would also greatly expedite travelers’ painfully slow passage through security...
...crucifixion. Nowadays, the route is packed with pushy vendors selling Holy Water, T-shirts championing the Israeli army, sandals and gaudy junk from India. Some reports claim that the site of the church was chosen after the Dowager Queen Helena had ordered the torture of a few rabbis to reveal the location of Christ's crucifixion, and that they may have deliberately given false information...