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Channel Chewbacca at the reunion concert of this Harvard band/gimmick gone wild(ly popular). Every song is about Star Wars. Seriously...
...fiercely independent faculty. Probably not too well. My image of the quintessential professor here is Professor Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles, University Professor of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek from 1860 to 1883, who lived by himself in Holworthy Hall, kept chickens in his room and wore a blue cloak and wild beard, that made, in the words of Professor Henry W. Longfellow, “Diogenes a possibility...
...friend remembers that Foley was "really drunk at the party." What's more, he was insistent about the wild times that regularly unfolded at his townhouse, saying that it was often a late-night stop for House members finished with work but not quite ready to hit the hay. Pointing to some shrubbery in the corner, Foley said, "See those bushes over there? Last week at a party, Phil Crane was on his hands and knees throwing up in those bushes." Crane was a senior, archconservative Republican congressman from Chicago who entered alcohol treatment in 2000 and lost...
...Thankfully, stories of the alleged excesses of other days were as wild as it got for us that night. Foley, as far as I saw, behaved himself. After we left, I was in touch with him from time to time as a friendly news contact who was always good for a laugh. He once gave me a story-making quote for a scoop in Legal Times about another scandal. It was an account of another G.O.P. congressman saying, at a closed-door January 1997 Republican Conference meeting, that then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's own attorney had charged that Gingrich...
...matter of time before rappers ended up on the big screen.In the end, it seems that Hollywood isn’t racist enough to turn down a new revenue stream. Beyond the obvious slew of movies about rap culture in the past several decades—“Wild Style,” “8 Mile,” “ATL,” “Hustle and Flow”—rappers are transitioning into screen stars with ever-increasing frequency. After years languishing below the popular consciousness, Flavor Flav reemerged...