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...upmanship, a mildly inebriated Benny Sachs ’05 was named the undisputed victor when he whipped out his finest summer accomplishment—his newly pierced penis. The scene, which one witness equated to a tad pole dangling from a meat hook, garnered looks of horror from friends. The normally staid Benny explained why he opted to have a steel ring pierced through the head of his beloved member and out of the end of his urethra as the first decoration on his otherwise unadorned, pasty white body. “Actually, I wanted a tiny...
...press box, the regional reporters are all pageant vets. Many of them are betting on Redd, but during the numerous commercial breaks, the conversation wanders a bit. I announce my absolute horror at child beauty pageants; my neighbor replies that she has judged a few. She doesn’t get offended, because she’s too busy looking for her friends, ardent Clay Aiken fans who call themselves “The Claymates.” The American Idol runner-up is an audience draw for the telecast...
...Manish Jha is no such equivocator. In A Nation Without Women (which won the critics' award at the recent Venice Film Festival), he exposes the social horror of India's antifemale birth policy from the first scene. A woman goes into labor; her husband paces anxiously; a baby's cry is heard. "It's a girl," the man is told; he takes the infant, drowns it in a well and apostrophizes, "Next year...
...even Grinspoon gets off.” Only, where does Grinspoon get his marijuana? How pure is it? I have unfortunately had experiences where the invitation to have a toke failed to mention that it was laced with something that left me looking for a television to dilute the horror that I was experiencing. Let the smoker beware that it isn’t quite as cut and dry as Grinspoon seems to profess...
...talks about grades at Harvard even though, like Hornstine, we care about them immensely. Each Expository Writing paper brings fresh horror, as students prate for hours in the dining hall about their parsimonious preceptors and the unappreciated nuances of their argument. News of grade inflation traumatized campus because it threatened a dependable source of affirmation for 6,400 over-achievers who had never seen...