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...Maria Bello. Yet, beneath all this viscerality lies a humor quotient liberally laced with self-deprecation. Above all, Gibson doesn't want us to take him seriously because he certainly doesn't. It is as if each kick to the nether regions he takes is a nudge, nudge, wink, wink to the viewer that he knows we're in on his little S&M game...
...Harvard Tiddlywinks Society meets up a few times a year to work the wink and test the tiddly. According to President Frank E. Pacheco `99, the Society lies "somewhere between a club and a team, and is in a continuous battle to find intercollegiate competition." It seems that few are up to the challenge, though, and the Society's games remain confined to intra-Harvard play. Pacheco says the club welcomes newcomers and is basically just a social game that's not very strenuous. The club organizes one tournament per year and insists on using only the finest imported English...
...here I come dangerously close to becoming just one more plaintive voice in the cacophony of reading period dismay. Rather, we should all try to put our troubles in the back of our minds, and face life with--if not a smile and a wink--at least a silent stoicism. Towards that end, we need only look to the oft-neglected outside world for ever-present reminder that things could certainly be a whole lot worse...
...long all this otherworldly hardware will operate is uncertain. The probes, powered by batteries, should wink out within three days. The lander, with robust solar panels to keep it humming, could last three months. But even if the systems do not survive that long, their work could be profound. After all, scientists have spent years studying just the Martian skin; this will be their first chance to dig a little deeper...
Being a Harvard women's hockey captain might be in the genes--Mleczko's sister, Wink Mleczko '95, was captain during A.J.'s sophomore year. But this year's squad has the chance to be Harvard's best team ever...