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...quickly expanded to include the student bodies of more than 2,100 colleges. Last fall, high schools were invited to join, and now Facebook has 7 million members. Like all secret societies, it has its own language, passageways and handshakes. You can "poke" a friend--sort of like a wink or a wave--without saying much more. You can check the "pulse" to see what movies, books and music are topping the charts at your school. You can post pictures of yourself and your friends, and there's a nifty feature that allows kids to create specialized subgroups of Facebookers...
...waiting for a wink or satirical nudge, it's not coming. Surprisingly for HBO, which has never exactly courted family-values conservatives, Big Love, for all its R-rated content, takes its deeply religious characters on their own terms. Olsen and Scheffer, both coastal gay men--"We're not red state, Mark and I," Scheffer deadpans--have invested their milieu with a sense of place and unsarcastic wholesomeness. "So much of this country has become subsumed by mass culture," says Olsen. "There's still something uniquely Utah, uniquely other that I admire. Would I want to live there...
...original half-hour BBC shows are here, plus the 1982 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (a greatest-hits show, but ruder) and a 1998 reunion of the five surviving members, recollecting the canon: Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Spanish Inquisition, etc. All together, Pythonites: Wink-wink nudge-nudge, say no more...
Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Wink...
...Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), says that, “There will always be well-meaning individuals who want to help, and if it can be provided safely, that is welcome.” Because of legal liability, Harvard cannot give an official wink and nudge to students to flout the rules. But there is certainly no punishment for helping a disabled friend. The official Harvard policy—and the official policy at most other institutions—is an issue of safety. Russell points out that the instructions “discourage...