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...wrong with you?” I’m asked this question so often that I have developed many creative explanations, usually involving abduction by aliens or the horrors of the Red Sox in the 2003 playoffs. I am happy to report, however, that I finally have a valid response. Now whenever I am I asked such a question, I simply tell my inquisitor to read the Jan. 30, 2006 issue of Newsweek entitled, “The Trouble With Boys,” and all their confusion about me will subside. In this report, the author, Peg Tyre...
...doubted the practicality of a switch from Coke. Larissa D. Koch ’08 says “There are enough people who are very thoroughly attached that there would be significant protest.” Usmani, for his part, says Coke-lovers have “a valid point,” but adds, “I have faith in Harvard students. I don’t think anyone can turn their back.” Unfortunately for SLAM, neither Harvard students nor the Harvard administration show signs of kicking the habit...
...those schools from observing their religious tenets.” Furthermore, in Employment Division v. Smith (1990), no less a conservative than Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the Court that “an individual’s religious beliefs [do not] excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the State is free to regulate”—let alone a law that does not prohibit such conduct, but merely refuses to grant it a special state subsidy. Based on these cases, then, it seems likely that revoking the state tax-exempt status...
...Similar signs were seen throughout Jerome, which enforced a curfew from dusk to dawn starting Monday night, as police prevented people without valid identification from entering the ruined town. "I'm a little hard of hearing and I was in the basement - me and my dog - so I didn't hear a thing," said Yvonne McCauley, 77, who was out during the curfew walking her dog, Molly. "But when I came out, my neighborhood, it was terrible to see. My neighbor's car was squashed, and another neighbor had a tree that crashed on his house. Me, I just feel...
...accompanied by comic strips, their Shakespeare supplemented by “10 Things I Hate About You.”Within Harvard’s top faculty, a divide is growing among its literary and social critics. On one side, there stand those who see pop culture artifacts as valid objects of inquiry. On the other side, there stand profs who fear a collapse toward the bottom of the barrel.THE GREAT EQUALIZERSMenand, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, says that he put the George Lucas movie on his syllabus not because of its intrinsic artistic value...