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Bono kept yesterday's speech lively with his tales of "crisscrossing the globe like the Partridge family on psychotropic drugs" with Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs '76--who was instrumental in securing Bono as Class Day speaker--and University President-elect Lawrence H. Summers. Anecdotes included a...
FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html TALL TALES Read the original story of Hamlet - it's weird! - and find a Japanese Cinderella from this exhaustive compendium of legends and myths
To understand Yasuo Tanaka, you need a piece of slang you won't find in any Japanese-English dictionary. Pero-guri is a phrase Tanaka coined himself to describe the sexual act. More specifically, his sexual acts. It's an onomatopoeic word, the pero coming from the slang pero-pero...
History, put otherwise, happened extensively in other parts of the world; but in the Midwest it hadn't seemed to stick. If adventurous grade-school teachers took us back before the era of the fire it was to tales of the area's indigenous peoples, the Miami of the north...
Bakley's defenders are few and mostly kin (or lawyers they have hired). Her half brother Peter Carlyon of Memphis, Tenn., says that Bakley had phoned to say she was afraid of Blake and that if she ended up dead he would be to blame. But sympathy has emerged from...