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This year’s April Fools Day brought its usual dose of idiocy, along with some semi-amusing pranks, some good one-liners, and one of two jokes that were actually convincing, if only for a minute or two. But I think my favorite of this year’s crop of April Fools jokes has to be the article the Yale Daily News (YDN) ran, in which reporter “Art Anderson” (a reference, of course, to the beleaguered accounting firm involved in the Enron debacle) reported that Yale’s endowment had taken...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Yale-pril Fools! | 4/9/2002 | See Source »

Whether the railways should be completely privatized or whether it should remain a semi-governmental operation, it must be given the best opportunity to improve its service. This will not be achieved through the current national-government-controlled-company design...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Safeguarding Rail Travel | 4/3/2002 | See Source »

They don't call it the Final Two. If you're looking for magic, for an American spectacle akin to the Super Bowl or the Oscars, please direct your attention to the doubleheader semi-final orgy of college basketball known as the Final Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Final Four-Play | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...plenty of light moments, but it's hardly as broad as his earlier movies. And that was a risk for Neo: his previous film That One No Enough bombed at the box office, earning only $650,000, and he was nervous about taking on a film with a semi-serious theme. "Deciding not to go with slapstick definitely cost Jack some sleepless nights," says I Not Stupid executive producer Daniel Yun. But Neo feels it was a necessary move: getting gags in drag was good to him, but it was time to move on. "I realized my audience is lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neo is the One | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...choose between a variety of Spring Break hot-spots: The socially conscious among us will perform Habitat for Humanity manual labor. The adventurous can backpack through Europe or Asia. The science-concentrating seniors may journey to Cambridge’s illustrious bio labs to complete their theses. The semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine might choose to crash at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion in Los Angeles...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: Spring Break, State School Style | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

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