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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gift, a copper weather vane in the likeness of an ibis, had been stolen just days earlier from atop the castle of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Editors at The Harvard Crimson, the campus daily and longtime rival of the Lampoon, immediately claimed responsibility for the heist...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lampoon, Crimson Face Off in Intra-Collegiate Rivalry | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

John H. Limpert ’55 wrote for The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that occasionally used to publish a so-called humor magazine, during a year when the magazine’s president composed about two-thirds of its content himself. This young president’s vocation, he says, was clear to everyone...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon to Pulitzer, Updike Runs On | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...semi-nude pictures it does contain are self-parodying, pointless or nothing edgy. A few articles and interviews address the ambiguous divide between art and porn, making the editors’ pronouncement “[H Bomb] isn’t porn, that’s for sure” seem painfully ironic and, by their own standards, simple-minded. Of course, it’s all part of the game—a full-page advertisement for Playboy (page 28) might signal something. And if Playboy is porn encased within misfit cerebral articles, then H Bomb is merely just...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Errata | 5/26/2004 | See Source »

...Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, door-dropped a parody of H Bomb Magazine across the College on April...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: H Bomb Drops, But Not at Doors | 5/26/2004 | See Source »

After June 30, Iraq will become a no man’s land. Everything about this next phase smacks of confusion and danger, even without the impact of the abuses by American personnel of Iraqi prisoners: semi-sovereignty mixed with insurrection, protracted ethnic-religious strife and discord over the nature of the yet-unformed permanent government. The U.S. military role will be subject to challenge under a quasi-Iraqi regime; both the definition of the U.N. mandate and U.S. support for it are up for grabs; international engagement is reticent; and the backing of the Iraqi people for a caretaker...

Author: By Jonathan Moore, | Title: Bush's Last Chance in Iraq to Avoid Early Withdrawl | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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