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...response to the Harvard Salient’s printing of offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd recently emailed the publication a warning that “some segments of the campus… may become dangerous.” Since those most directly offended by the Salient are Muslim students, the email would have you believe that they are ready to torch down Thayer Hall, home of the Salient. Don’t worry Thayer residents: your rooms are safe...
When Corrine first comes upon Luke, then a dazed and disoriented stranger stumbling up West Broadway, it is a day after the Sept. 11 disaster—the first day in what they both come to recognize as an “entirely new calendar.” Begrimed and bloodied, a guilt-wracked Luke is desperately searching for the friend he was to meet that fatal morning when he is effectively saved by the “angelic apparition…whom, in his delirium, he’d briefly and wishfully imagined as the last woman on earth?...
...lonely heart meets her true love when she throws a knife into his chest. Another finds hers while she's trying to raise the dead. Still another happens upon Mr. Right while performing emergency surgery on one of his fangs. If you think meeting guys is tough, you should try meeting vampires...
...DIVA GETS STOOD UP Upon arriving in Torino, U.S. national figure-skating champ JOHNNY WEIR admitted to being "princessy" when he travels. He complained that his Olympic Village quarters were cramped and so dusty that he had to mop the floor himself. Entering the free program in second place, Weir lost focus, shuffling his elements around and finishing fifth. Turns out that two hours before skating, he had been waiting in the cold for a bus that never came. Maybe he's got a point about crummy service...
...still smarting over a bad breakup with my old pediatricians. It's not that my exes were incompetent or unprofessional (although I could have done without the multi-hour waits). It's more that they treated me and my husband with the sort of arrogance and unresponsiveness that, upon consulting with other moms, I'm discovering is not uncommon in parent-ped relationships...