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...meant to turn off all the lights in the Science Center, but they only have dimmer switches,” Widmer recalled. “It was kind of a bungled prank...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Conan We Knew | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Indeed, the other member of the Lamont book checker’s “two-person admiration society,” O’Brien’s friend Edward L. Widmer ’84, said that “with Conan, every single thing over the course of the day is an object of humor and observational comedy and wordplay—it was just always great to be around...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Conan We Knew | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...sophomore year, O’Brien had been elected Lampoon President—a role that suited him beautifully, according to Widmer, who said O’Brien had “the body of Abraham Lincoln and the head of Martin Van Buren.” He became the first leader in the magazine’s 134-year history to reign for two terms...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Conan We Knew | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...just remember looking at his legs running up the Science Center stairs as I was being tackled by the Dunster House Film Society,” Widmer said...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Conan We Knew | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...Switzerland to end their lives. A government advisory body on biomedical ethics estimates that out of approximately 350 to 400 cases of assisted suicide each year, about one-third are from abroad. "We as a country have no interest in being attractive for suicide tourism," Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf told a news conference on Oct. 28. Not surprisingly, the Catholic Church, the country's largest religious denomination, welcomes the government's move. "Those of us who respect human life can't approve or encourage assisted suicide," Monsignor Kurt Koch, president of Swiss Bishops Conference, said in a statement. (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Government Tries to Stop 'Suicide Tourists' | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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