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...matter how he performs in Queens. (The bet here is that he'll be swell for a year or two, especially against those NL lineups, but by year five he'll be cooked to a crisp. And he'll begin to act up in year three, as is his wont.) Gabe Kapler certainly deserved to play every day somewhere, and if that somewhere needed to be Japan, well, then, good for you, Gabe, and thanks for the memories. Orlando Cabrera brought flash to the field and fun to the clubhouse, and we'll learn down the road whether we made...
Several nights ago Dartboard and his roommate were having a late night discussion. While both are wont to be asleep at a time when many Harvard students are first beginning their work, excessive imbibing of dining-hall coffee prevented early efforts at slumber...
...press release emphasized that marriage amendments failed in urban areas, even if they were eventually passed on the strength of rural votes. The Task Force dangerously implies that rural bumpkins could not be dissuaded from their prejudice, and gives them up for lost. Harvard students were wont to take this position after the election in every conceivable forum, such as when Former Harvard Professor Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 held a Mather roundtable which was characterized by self-reinforcing group think, leading discussion toward condescending oversimplifications about people of faith...
...title, an anagram for vampire is just the first surprise in this wonderfully idiosyncratic French classic. A neurotic imaginative director is trying to remake Louis Feuillade’s classic silent thriller serial Les Vampires, but the plans go awry as plans are wont to do. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung, as herself, comes to Paris to take the lead role, Irma Vep. Soon, however, she is waylaid by semi-psychotic journalists lecturing her on the future of cinema and strange, frightening dreams that seem to be connected to the project. This bizarre and amazing satire of modern French cinema...
...shouldn’t be used as the principal example against the preservation of marriage as is the case in Sichel’s column. Furthermore, it would seem that the vast majority of newly-wed couples have “explored” (as new-age libertines are wont to say) each other’s sexual ability way before the ceremony and were logically not inclined to get married to sanctify something they already...