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Sports fans like to refer to their teams in the first person. After a big victory, we exclaim, “We destroyed them.” Casual observers may not understand, but it makes sense to us die-hards. Forget even the crowd’s massive impact on each game; professional teams simply could not exist without the financial support of their fans...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PARTING SHOT: Leave the Heckling at Home | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...object to your use of the phrase "the Church's penance still lies ahead” in the Crimson Staff editorial “Papal Penance” that was published on Apr. 8, 2010. Although doubtless you intended it to refer to the small proportion of clergy and laity complicit in acts both sinful and criminal, the Church is comprised of all baptized Catholics worldwide, and by implying that all these people have yet to receive penance for sexual abuse, you (however accidentally) slander the names of more than a billion people. Furthermore, your "specific reforms" which should...

Author: By Josh A. Hicks | Title: LETTER: More Respect for the Church, Please! | 5/14/2010 | See Source »

What do you look for in a girl/guy: Chivalrous, sweet, funny, sensitive, hard-working, responsible­...please refer to Prince Charming in Cinderella...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Madison A. Greer | 5/7/2010 | See Source »

...Merriweather Post Pavilion.” Now, with the creation of “ODDSAC”, the band is attempting to diffuse their musical psychedelic experimentation into a visual aesthetic. But is this just another hoax from the quartet who like to refer to themselves by names like “Panda Bear” and “the Geologist,” and who wear animal masks to press conferences, or is there some greater artistic value at work here? The answer is perhaps both. It is a fundamentally subjective experience; with no coherent dialogue or plot...

Author: By Sarah L. Hopkinson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW VISUAL ALBUM: The Sound and Fury of Animal Collective | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...abstract. The taxidermist's play turns out to be a Beckettian affair about a monkey and a donkey, Beatrice and Virgil, who live on a giant shirt (yes, a shirt). Beatrice and Virgil are lost, shell-shocked survivors of a massacre of animals by humans, an "abomination" they can refer to only as "the Horrors." Thus the Holocaust, denied entrance at the front door, sneaks in through the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock the Monkey | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

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