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...Lampoon’s first Jewish editors got in a fight with his advisers during the 1950s. The subsequently threatened to have him ad-boarded and expelled. The writer retreated to the castle where he sat holed up with textbooks studying for days (unclear why the need for textbooks). After spending several days in isolation, the writer went to a pet-store to buy 15 rabid dogs. He then went to Lamont Library where he proceeded to paint the book-cases with meat sauce. While the writer chatted up the guard, a friend of his entered the library with...
...three cats, according to former neighbor Taylor Goodwin, 16. “I never really talked to him much,” Goodwin said. “He was just some guy.” Police have said Clark is a lab technician at Yale. It’s unclear how long he worked there and Clark’s supervisors would not comment Tuesday. Le worked for a Yale laboratory that conducted experiments on mice, and investigators found her body stuffed in the basement wall of a facility that housed research animals. Clark works...
...developing its Money program in June, and Intuit started offering Quicken Online for free in October 2008. Banks, too, have started to offer a similar service to their customers, but somehow, having an outside party monitor your bank seems like a better idea. Mint makes some money - it's unclear how much - by recommending credit cards or investment vehicles under its "Ways to Save" option. If you sign up with one of them, the site gets...
...Feminism is a frustratingly ambivalent movement, unclear as to exactly what it requires from those who self-identify as members. Its relationship with femininity—those mysterious qualities that characterize the female sex—is even more ambivalent. Apologetic qualifications (“I’m a feminist, but…”) are frequently invoked by young women, who associate the doctrine with the overly serious, overly desexualized, and inadequately shaven activists of the ’60s and ’70s. Even those girded with feminist theory, and fully aware of the dangers...
...Hatoyama knows this mandate is provisional. In modern times the Japanese have been wary of radical change, and it's unclear to what extent the DPJ's ambitious platform can be implemented by a party criticized for its lack of unity and common ideology, not to mention experience: 46% of the incoming crop of DPJ members are first-time parliamentarians. But public impatience with politics as usual has boiled over; the DPJ's novices would be well advised to follow Hatoyama's lead and start hustling. Below, we've pinpointed five areas on which the new ruling party should focus...