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...even dealt deftly with his first media mini-controversy. Last summer Shaquille O'Neal asked a reporter to "tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'" In an Asian Week column early last month, the remarks were repeated, and Yao was asked for a response. Tongue in cheek, he said that Chinese was a hard language to learn. (To defuse any controversy, Yao had also sent Shaq a Christmas card, not a typical Chinese gesture.) Before the two played in Houston later in January, Shaq apologized, using the Mandarin dui bu qi. Yao invited Shaq to his home...
Some administrators reading this column may shake their heads in exasperation at the umpteenth senior writing the umpteenth editorial about a situation which is the obvious result of four-fifths bad planning and one-fifth unadulterated procrastination. I like to think of it as denial. Mixed in with bad planning and procrastination is the hope that somehow, next year, some new course will be offered that will offer respite from watching leopards mate with half of the freshman class. And lo, that class appears and while you warm your hands on the corner of the radiator allotted...
Anthony S.A. Freinberg ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Crimson, Fenster is quick to acknowledge, is “a very different paper. We would never run [those headlines] in the Crimson—ever, ever, ever.” Fenster’s familiarity with FM on this point is a bit suspect. The column is a welcome creative outlet for him, especially after the past few years of the high-strung Crimson culture. “It’s more like a fun project for me than a sort of serious column. I tended to get a little self-indulgent when I wrote my columns...
Jonathan P. Abel ’05 is a history concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...