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...Speaking of court, I was called for jury duty this week. Waiting in the jury room to learn whether I would be required to serve, I picked up a discarded copy of the recently redesigned, somewhat smaller Wall Street Journal. The bible of high-dollar Babbitry is not something I usually read. What I wanted to do was try to make a hat out of it. I wondered whether the Journal's narrower new page is deficient in the same way as the similarly trimmed Atlanta Journal-Constitution's. For generations, the men who print the J-Cwould fold...
...return to Cambridge, after living in Connecticut for 30 years, is somewhat of a homecoming. Richard, born in Kent in southeastern England, studied anthropology as an undergraduate at Cambridge’s Newham College during the late ’60s. It was there that she participated in her most memorable form of protest, when in 1967 she jumped on Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s car to demonstrate against the Vietnam War, as she recounted to The Daily Telegraph...
Musico’s music direction—he doubles as the first keyboard in the band–is fantastic throughout the play. Brown and Musico have worked together before under somewhat darker circumstances in last spring’s Beckett compilation “A Few Rags of Love,” also in the Loeb Ex; their work on “Company” marks a more upbeat collaboration...
Hypocrisy is hardly foreign to Harvard University, yet I still find it ironic and somewhat disconcerting that so many Harvard students are willing to consume obscene amounts of alcohol every weekend but blithely stigmatize the minority of their peers who like to get high. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen people—who apparently have no problem blacking out, puking in a toilet bowl, and hooking up with utter strangers—shudder with horror and righteous indignation when someone mentions smoking weed. Of course, this silly taboo among Harvard students...
This boredatlamont.com poster seems to have carried economic jargon to its most ridiculous extreme. The post’s mixture of the crude and the academic is somewhat disconcerting, although quite funny (especially in the uncensored original...