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...might take a moment to ponder the ways in which football really is America?s game. With apologies to Bronislaw Malinowski - whose pioneering treatise on the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea led to studies of the ways in which the islanders appropriated cricket and turned it into a native ritual - let?s explore how we Americans took over the primitive sports of soccer and rugby and adapted them to our belief system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Anthropology of the Super Bowl | 1/30/2004 | See Source »

Last week, eight Lowell House residents kicked off the first-ever Lowell “Neckbeard-a-thon,” a new exam period ritual for stir-crazy students that bars contestants from shaving any body part below the jawbone. Facial shaving is, however, encouraged...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neckbeards Keep Lowellians Warm | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

This is not the first time the Lowell House blocking group has tested out a new whacky ritual at Harvard...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neckbeards Keep Lowellians Warm | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...mother's reckless ruse has ominous consequences. Everyone notices that this Osama is different--"like a nymph," one man says. After landing a menial job, the girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, where each lad is instructed in the proper washing of the male genitals. Her deceit is discovered when she has her first menstrual period, and she is married off to an old mullah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bright Hope In A Sad Land | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...possum has landed!" Crowd at the New year's Eve possum drop, an annual ritual in Brasstown, North Carolina, that parodies the dropping of a ball in New York's Times Square. A live possum is used

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

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