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From his window he greeted the crowds on Easter morning and again on Wednesday, visibly frustrated at being unable to utter one last blessing, one more prayer. "Those two appearances may have been what did it," despaired a high Vatican official, as though the fate of such a man could hang on such decisions. "If he had stayed inside, he wouldn't have risked infection." By Thursday the decline was swift. Even as the U.S. continued its great debate over when to remove a feeding tube, the Vatican revealed the Pope was on one. Terri Schiavo, once a private, ordinary...
...Filmmaking is utter madness. The fact that any film ever works on any level is kind of a miracle...
That’s where the LLT comes in. It’s small, easy to carry with you to class or meetings and has a pretty shiny silver case. Now, as you may (wisely) ask, how does this device work? Simple. Just utter a common phrase or word used by campus lefties (make sure you enunciate, the technology isn’t top quality) and push the big red “TRANSLATE” button. The LLT will give back to you a translation of the input in everyday English that your fellow Ann Harvard or John Radcliffe...
...broadcasters is uncertainty. They say they have no idea what is acceptable now, and the FCC won't spell it out. Contrary to popular belief--and George Carlin's seven-words-you-can't-say-on-TV routine--there are no stone tablets to clarify that thou shalt never utter this word or show that body part. The FCC will rule on indecency after the fact--sometimes twice. At the 2003 Golden Globes, singer Bono of U2 called his band's winning Best Original Song from a Film "f___ing brilliant." In October 2003, the FCC ruled that the expletive...
...Harvard, the soulless pursuit of success and an utter lack of personality are standard operating procedure for vast swathes of the student body. Ambition to be the best in things that ultimately don’t matter—to get the highest paying investment banking job, to get into the best medical or law school, to ace every class—trumps all else...