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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Simpsons,” one of network television’s longest-running and highest-rated shows, Meyer honed his skills as an entertainer during his years at Harvard. Back then, Meyer was often just one of a group of friends sitting outside the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. From the steps of the Lampoon’s Bow Street castle, he would sing songs into the night...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Simpsons Writer Meyer, Comedy is No Laughing Matter | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...sold his property in Belize and moved back to Canaan, where he is “devoting himself 110 percent” to the composition of his opus—a trilogy of semi-autobiographic epic plays spanning four generations of his Italian family...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Promoter of Voice Mail Moves To Belize, Invents Plastic ‘Shoe’ | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...concocted by utopian neoconservatives, and family psychodrama--young Bush avenging and one-upping his old man. There was, as always, a congenital distrust of all things martial among the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," as Howard Dean would say. And it was Dean who made himself into a semi-plausible contender by voicing these suspicions and by excoriating his fellow candidates for not standing up to Bush on Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Build A Better Democrat | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...Lady) and William Wellman (The High and the Mighty). His rugged looks and sermonizing voice made him a natural lead, but beneath this facade lay an edgy undertone of obsessiveness. Stack later appeared in Airplane! and, as host of Unsolved Mysteries, brought his sermon-on-the-mount voice to semi-plausible stories of missing persons and unquiet ghosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

Karnofsky, who also writes for the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to publish a so-called humor magazine, noted that the speech would be “an opportunity to force people to listen...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Day Speakers Chosen to Provoke Laughter, Thought | 5/14/2003 | See Source »

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