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British Liberal MEP Diana Wallis tried to make this point in the Parliament debate on Tuesday, but her pleas were ignored. "Seals are very beautiful marine animals - in fact, I have realized during this process that they have great PR," she said. "But to some they are the rats of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Battles the E.U. Over Baby Seals | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

Goddamn it, prefrosh. All of our house lists are currently plagued by the pleas of clubs on campus asking for us college students to get your overeager asses to their events. And the thing is, you guys actually oblige with no shame.

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: The Prefrosh Sabbath Day | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

This Saturday, the Harvard Classical Club translated Aristophanes’s classical Athenian “Lysistrata”—the story of a band of woman determined to end the Peloponnesian War by withholding sex from their “menfolk”—into...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HCC’s ‘Lysistrata’ Takes Humorous Liberties | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

It is hard to avoid the impression that we simply cherry-picked Obama’s (admittedly phenomenal) 2004 speech. While it was remarkably effective at bringing fame to the Illinois senator, it failed to change us in any meaningful way. Our notions about those who are ideologically distant remain...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Change We Are Not Asked For | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

When asked about his antics, Chiapinni explained to me that “It’s really a question of capitalism. Some win, some lose.” But, like the pleas of inefficient industries looking to the government for protection from foreign competition, his logic is flawed. The...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Smoot, Hawley, and HUDS | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

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