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...just the comix medium but the original as well. While we may not see any comix versions of the latest Michael Crichton there are plenty of (lapsed copyright) classics out there for otherwise unknown artists to rework into their own. If writers borrow and poets steal, let comix artists swipe...
...there's a limit to how far retailers will go to let customers fiddle with their products. Jonah Peretti, 28, who works for a new-media arts group in New York, tried to order a pair of Nike iD shoes embroidered with the word sweatshop. That's a swipe at Nike's reputation as a company reliant on cheap foreign labor. Nike's response: Just forget it. --With reporting by Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...drunken, turquoise-shirted meltdown for new Crimson Key elect and first-time drinker Amir C. Daharphuni ’04. “I am TRASHED!” he exclaimed as he attempted to open the front door to Lowell by sticking his pinky finger in the card swipe slot post-initiation. “Do you like my TIE?” he yelled. “It’s turquoise TOO! HA!” He then yakked on the card swipe machine, rendering it useless and yak-encrusted...
...this guy looking in your backpack, indeed? Entering Widener library, a student first must swipe his Harvard ID through a turnstile, which is monitored by a security guard. Then, at the entrance to the stacks, a separate guard inspects the IDs; the Phillips Reading Room also requires ID checks. Upon exiting the library, another guard inspects the contents of bags and the due dates of all library books. Although Widener’s security features are particularly extensive, all Harvard libraries operate similarly. Given the substantial number of employees involved, this represents a serious commitment of Harvard?...
Nineteenth century psychiatrists coined a term for the irresistible impulse to swipe: they called it kleptomania, from the Greek kleptein, to steal. It was applied after the fact to Jane Austen's aunt, who was tried in 1800 for pocketing fancy white lace. By the 1920s Freudian psychologists, always attuned to underlying sexual drives, were comparing the rush from a successful filch to the pleasure of an orgasm. Experts today are more inclined to compare recreational larceny to thrill-seeking behaviors like bungee jumping or to addictions like drug abuse or compulsive gambling...