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...resources, but, if anything, is anti-community. Its main selling point is its "Jam-Scams," essentially a grown-up version of a middle school prank, in which Baltazar torments his victims by telling them (falsely) that their cars will be impounded or that their houses will be foreclosed upon. The scammed person invariably gets angrier and angrier, leading to bleeped-out expletives, giggles from the 'Zar, and finally a promise from the scammed to "get the person who did this to me." Jam'n has a parasitic, Beavis and Butthead vision of community, where listeners join together to laugh...
...frustrations that homework visits upon kids can irk their parents to the point of revolt. David Kooyman, of Covina, Calif., was so incensed about his three grade-schoolers' homework load that he exacted a pledge from their teachers not to lower his kids' grades if they didn't do assignments. When the kids found themselves lost in class discussions, Kooyman reluctantly allowed them to do the homework, but he is planning to sue the school district for violating his civil rights. "They have us hostage to homework," he grumbles. "I'm 47, and I have 25-year-old teachers telling...
...writing credits, Norman admits he is beginning to feel "burned" by hearing the movie repeatedly called Stoppardian. He says, "In terms of the story, structure and the language--I accomplished that in my screenplay." But both men confirm that many of the jokes that dazzle past--the Stratford-upon-Avon mug; the pub waiter offering a special of "pig's foot marinated in juniper vinegar served on a buckwheat pancake"--are indeed Stoppard...
...Harvard used to have centers for undergraduatelife. It didn't rely upon the clubs forlocations," he said. "The clubs should be clubs,and Harvard should do something to make the clubsnot the place where action is supposedly happeningwith its undergraduates...
...Harvard students, the most visible partof the disaster prevention initiative will be thebags. Beth Brainard, communications officer of theHarvard College libraries, said the bags, locatedat the circulation and checkout desks, will not beforced upon students, but she said she hopesstudents will use and re-use them