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Soon enough, through some incoherent bit of comic book magic, Constance is sucked through her trashcan into the world of Othello, just as Iago is about to play his fatal trick and convince the Moor to murder his wife, Desdemona. Constance exposes the deception and goes on to become Othello's favorite and Desdemona's best friend. She learns, as she had long suspected, that the "real" Desdemona is no fainting flower; rather, she yearns for a life of combat, such as she assumes Constance must enjoy in the Kingdom of Academe...
...typical postering run last week for one of Harvard's many student groups, one of our members turned to see three undergraduates shamelessly ripping down her posters, crumpling them up and throwing them right into the nearest trashcan. When they saw her walking towards them, they pretended they were just standing there talking...
Despite Brown's efforts to provide a varied selection of books, many passengers complained that all they ever find on the shelves are romances and mystery novels. One commuter described the service as "a trashcan for people's old books...
...leads to a callous unwillingness to deal with them at all. Like this country's president, most of the public seems to hope that the homeless will simply go away, taking their plight with them. At the pizza place in Berkeley, the student clientele greeted the crowd around the trashcan with derisive yells of "Eeeeeuw, gross," and the employees often threw sawdust on the pizza before disposing of it--as if the crowd was trying to save money by waiting for the food to come out for free. But the same employees probably laugh at presidential advisor Edwin Meese...
...Crimson once reported that prior to 1972, the Harvard Treasurer's Office dealt with many shareholder resolutions before companies in the University portfolio by tossing them into the trashcan upon receipt. That was back when Treasurer George F. Bennet '33--once a member of the Ford Motor Company Board of Directors--was in charge. Under Bennet's direction. Harvard never voted against management in any of the "proxy fights" that occurred within companies in the University's portfolio...