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...status of Harvard's Afro-Am Department is the result of two related vicious cycles. Afro-Am is said to be a legitimate field of study, yet the Faculty claims it cannot find anyone to tenure in that subject. This lack of qualified scholars then is cited as the reason for Harvard not being able to train future scholars. The near disappearance this year of the department demands that administrators take action to ensure its continued existence as a viable and vibrant academic department...
Thorpe, in turn, blamed his cold on the "bogus" Cambridge weather. The South Carolina resident said he had troubleadjusting to the climate here. But he added thatthe rumor that he is responsible for the coldepidemic is "a vicious...
...picked up by the "Up With People" touring company, so everything was pretty cool. They taught us some neat songs we all could lip-synch along with, including some old Captain and Tennille tunes. We had a swell time until the peyote set in and we started to have vicious hallucinations and were forced to kill and eat "Up With People...
...water polo team: This may be the most strenous sport since rollerball. The supposed object: to toss the ball into the net. The secret agenda: to drown the opponent. Perhaps this is overestimating the vicious nature of the game, but water polo is the most under-appreciated sport around. It falls somewhere between ballet and bull-riding in the gracefulness department, and has more scoring than field hockey and soccer combined...
...power and, instead, parade an anarchic childishness. Their banner might have read HELL, NO, WE WON'T GROW UP. In Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus tossed music-hall bawdry into a Dada format, and at home National Lampoon updated sick humor with a stinging Wasp edge. They were vicious; they were silly; they couldn't care less. And now someone had to shatter the lulling cadences of stand-up too. Who better than the child of Disneyland and Wittgenstein...