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...earlier this week mailing off their applications to Blackstone, one of Wall Street’s most prestigious financial services firms. This surprising revelation about the Poonsters’ career of choice may offer the long elusive explanation why the Lampoon is incomprehensible when read as a humor magazine. Perhaps it’s not a humor magazine at all, but rather a sophisticated trade journal dealing in high risk derivative strategies far above the grasp of the financial layman. Never fear though: the Lampoon may not technically be a bad humor magazine, but it’s still okay...
...It’s important to keep a sense of humor if you want office behavior to change,” said Vicky Sato ’68, president of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company...
...take a perverse delight in switching roles—being handed the keys to the door. Final club punch pageants, The Crimson executive “Turkey Shoot,” comp parties at a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine: all of these events are about who gets in and who gets left out. In the end, it hardly seems to matter what you’re joining to do in the first place...
...reality was that he had a sense of humor about the entire academic enterprise,” Vorenberg said. He said that many times, when students or fellow colleagues held academic discourse with Gienapp, he would have this “inscrutable” expression on his face, as if there was an inside joke about the whole conversation that only he understood...
...returned from a conference on the sexual slavery and trafficking of women and children, I can assure you this is far from funny. Women who are prostituted are commonly beaten, raped and treated as disposable. Indeed, this is just the attitude reflected in Green’s attempt at humor. According to a study cited in Prostitution Research and Education, women in prostitution have a mortality rate 40 times higher than the national average. Most women and girls who enter into prostitution do so between the ages of 13 and 17, and over 75 percent of them have run away...