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...ceremony begins at 6:45 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, when tribes gather in tired-looking knots in front of the John Harvard statue or near the Science Center. Each has a leader, whose priestly position is designated by a roll of masking tape and an armful of posters. The devotees gather around these clan leaders to prepare their choreography. Who will perform the Sever-Lamont corroboree? What unlucky low-status tribesperson will be saddled with the Wigglesworth archways...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Postering in the Ethnographic Gaze | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...you’re going to ignore the SAT Reasoning Test, maybe? What? My mother is crying—mostly because I berated her (it was unrelated), but at least partly because she spent seven months of her pregnancy with a tape player strapped to her torso, repeating complete analogies. Tenet is to theologian what hypothesis is to biologist—not that that matters...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: From a Future Freshman | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

Enter the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. The directions are as simple as moose pie. Type your first name, click enter, and some sort of formula spits out your very own Palin-esque name. I'm Wood Corps Palin. My sister Chelsea gets rechristened Tape Boise Palin. My brother Brandon? Tarp Lazer Palin. Wood, Tape, and Tarp: baby names you could use to build a temporary outdoor shelter. Very Alaska. The Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...young lady. Tired and frustrated, Lily returned to her room determined to stick it to both her nighttime wardens and the stale daytime sentry who patrolled her school. With great gusto, Lily accented the plaid skirt she is forced to wear every day with slick black strips of duct tape, and, concluding that she had accomplished her goal with great flair and even greater bravery, she called it a night.If Lily’s story sounds familiar, even cheesy, well, it should: her narrative is so familiar that even the least jaded among us are wont to feel...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rock and Rebellion in Shanghai | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...sitting alone in a room with a clock, turning on a tape recorder, and starting to speak into it. Speak about anything you want - with the proviso that your topic, and your opinions on it, must be of interest to some group of strangers who you imagine will be listening to the tape. Naturally, in order to be even minimally interesting, your remarks should be intelligible and their reasoning sequential - a listener will have to be able to follow the logic of what you're saying - which means that you will have to know enough about your topic to organize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Journalism of David Foster Wallace | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

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