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Brattle Theatre, 2009 A.D. Saturday, about tea time. The occasion was a celebration of the 40th anniversary of that witty British comedy troupe, Monty Python. The “Python-A-Thon,” which took place last weekend, was little more than an excuse to watch every Python movie back-to-back, not that there is anything wrong with that. The films were interspersed with episodes of “The Flying Circus.” The event even featured a special “Quote-A-Long” presentation of “The Holy Grail...
...everyone settled down at the phones, one girl squealed, “I’m scared to call!” Flyby wonders why she volunteered to take part in a phone-a-thon...
...counter-protest, which was organized by the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard College Queer Student and Allies, included a Phelps-a-thon fundraiser—named after Westboro leader Fred Phelps—which raised over $1000 for Cambridge Cares About AIDS...
...Christopher M. Mason, a Cambridge GLBT commissioner who organizes Phelps-a-thon fundraisers—named after WBC leader Fred Phelps—to raise money for every minute that the WBC is holding a protest, said that the WBC encourages unprecedented unity among its opponents...
...that self-fulfilling spiral also means relative calm can follow bouts of chaos. Though the causes of Monday's global sell-a-thon remain unchanged, by Tuesday markets had mostly digested it all - and began looking for ways to pick up, muddle on, and possibly find a deal to be had in dumped stock. One reason for the bargain hunting is that investors know inordinately depressed markets mean there are deals to be had. "Half of the companies on Paris' CAC 40 have seen their stock fall to less than their equity capital - which makes no economic or financial sense...