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...Casey at the Bat” was written by Thayer in January of 1888 for the San Francisco Examiner, a newspaper which was then headed by Thayer’s classmate William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was an editor of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...past. Three years after the British tried to tame Mesopotamia, the Times of London complained about the futility of the project and--Karl Rove, take note--about its impact on domestic British politics: "While [the government] has spent nearly 150,000,000 since the Armistice upon semi-nomads in Mesopotamia [it] can find only 200,000 a year for the regeneration of our slums, and have had to forbid all expenditure under the Education Act of 1918." (The government was defeated by Labor...
...when Novartis makes its hires, it will draw, to a large extent, on the “intellectual capital” of Cambridge’s population, rather than its semi- skilled labor...
...Lampoon, the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, seems still to display its perennial problems. A lack of leadership, a homogenous membership and a culturally ingrained opposition to publishing anything that provokes even the subtlest chuckle all continue to plague the would-be jokesters. Humbly, I propose a few policy changes at the Bow Street castle...
Last Friday’s event was not Toback’s first return to Harvard. His film Harvard Man (2001), a semi-autobiographical reenactment of Toback’s life-changing experiments with LSD during his undergraduate years, was filmed on location in Cambridge. And Toback was a key speaker in a conference sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies after the 1999 release of his film Black and White, which explored the popularity of hip-hop music in white suburbia...