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Removing his bear head, he then proceeded to read to us the “concession remarks?? sent by Kirkland House Masters Tom and Verena Conley. In the second of two e-mails, the Conleys identified, in a photograph, “the two sluggers in their entryway who failed to register opinions.” The ones to blame for Kirkland’s “ignominious defeat”? Max and Jesse, the House dogs. (Christakis’ theory is that Elsa and Rudy, the Pfoho dogs, had “chased them away...
...certainly less sympathetic to his subjects than many other contemporary writers on Africa, but at the same time he condemns the simplicities of racial analysis and highlights the unfair plight of Indian immigrants throughout East Africa. His brother has fallen understandably under fire for ethnically and religiously insensitive remarks??in recent years, V.S. Naipaul has been overtly prejudiced in his assessment of Muslims and the Islamic World—but Shiva Naipaul, by contrast, merely shares his brother’s resonance and descriptive eye for the evocatively grotesque, notably in the instance of the diseased mendicants...
Haven’t we heard this one before? Last week, Iran’s controversial president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made a speech in which he said nasty, provocative things about Israel, leading to international uproar. Controversy is nothing new for Ahmadinejad, whose previous remarks??including “The American empire in the world is reaching the end” and “Israel is about to crash. This is God’s promise and the wish of all the world’s nations”—are notorious...
...secret, really. Don’t write out “TIME!!!” in inch-high scrawl—it only brings out the sadist in us. Don’t (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks??we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five...
...debate began with four candidates—Michael C. Koenigs ’09 was “assassinated” midway through his opening remarks??and saw frontrunners Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 trade barbs about topics like Schwartz’s final club membership and the extent to which the UC should work with the Harvard administration. The third serious candidate in the race is Charles T. James...