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...movement as it bounces between Mather House and the Quad (and beyond!). This new technology led FM to ask the age-old question: if you could stalk anything, what would it be? So whether you’re fleeing–or pursuing–your victim, let the hunt begin. 1. President Drew Gilpin Faust. Because FM needs to re-issue the “Scrabble Challenge” face to face. 2. Interim Dean David Pilbeam. Someone needs to give him a “Kick in the Butt” (3 parts Absolut Raspberri, 3 parts Limoncello...
...victim, a Donald Wyman crabapple, was one of three trees to have survived an attempt to cut it down by an editor of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...that a typical career thief prefers to minimize violence, which raises pressure on the police to catch him and increases severity of the punishment if he is convicted. But young South African muggers and burglars don't just rob for the money. Many want to inflict pain on their victims, beating, raping or killing them. Of the 200,000 robberies every year, more than half are classed as "aggravated," meaning the victim was also assaulted. A friend warned me before I arrived in South Africa nine months ago, "This is political crime," meaning the violence is a form of revenge...
...Dylan Thomas famously refused to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London. Antoon is the polar opposite, and the deaths he elegizes are not accidental; they are calculated murders. In the most haunting stanza of the collection, from "To an Iraqi Infant," he addresses a young victim: "Don't be afraid!/ We'll arrange your bones/ Which ever way you want/ And leave your skull/ Like a flower...
...Reading the names of every victim of the 9/11 tragedy at the anniversary memorial is ridiculous. This country has a nauseating habit of sensationalizing every event with a fervor that borders on fanaticism. We all grieve for the victims of tragedies, but there comes a time when we must be left to our own manner of grieving. Splashing memorial ceremonies throughout the media only dredges up sorrow, which we hardly need at this time in our country's sorry state. If we could bring such passion to the truly important issues, we could forge a better future. Let's move...