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...story of this recession does continue to sharpen. October was comeback month, and November seems to have been come-back-to-reality month, leaving us with a semi-discernible trend that puts the economy - you guessed it - somewhere near a bottom but not exactly turned around just yet. Oil and gas prices remain helpfully low for consumers, and consumers themselves don't seem to be too badly off. But it seems few businesses are willing to ramp up production just yet - until they see demand waiting for them around the corner, they're not going to do much. And they...
Although a petition asking the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, to renew the lease of its 43-year-tenant has garnered around 150 signatures in the past month, Starr says he has no choice but to leave the Bow Street castle...
...Much of Frances’ future is classified. We can only tell you so much. Some things we know for sure: Harpoon IPA will almost certainly be involved. Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of “Just One of Those Things” will definitely be involved. Semi-obsessive men will be involved, probably Latin political operatives instead of drunken WASPs. Her CIA underlings will be confused by e-mails like “overthrow Chilean government sadfjkasdfjkhsdf heh heh -Frances.” We can hope, too: that she finds success and happiness in the world...
...brilliant contribution to the new collection of essays How Did This Happen?, Anatol Lieven tells of Pakistani Islamic radicals in the 1980s. They lived in a "semi-Western, semi-modern culture." They faced the threat of "sinking into the immiserated, semi-employed proletariat--with the hira mandi, or prostitutes' quarter, as the possible destiny of their sisters and daughters." It is men like those who may soon be tempted to venerate bin Laden's memory. We must persuade them to withhold the accolade; we can start by listening to their stories...
Harvard had another ace up its sleeve in co-captain Dawid Rechul, who finished fourth in the heavyweight class after losing to eventual champion Kevin Hoy of Airforce, 7-3 in the semi-finals and 5-3 to Wyoming’s Brad Steele in the consolations...