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...scene out of Friends when a gang of eight professionals gathered at a Greenwich Village coffee house last week. But these twentysomethings weren't obsessing over their tangled love lives. One financial administrator was working on baby booties for her niece, a handbag designer was showing off her semi-completed angora scarf, and a few others were struggling to learn the purl stitch. All are part of Mimi Tsang's 12-member knitting circle, which includes two men. They meet for brunch or dinner in New York City cafes, sometimes clicking away as long as five hours. Says Tsang...
...campus awoke to a big surprise Friday morning when they discovered that the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, actually produced an issue...
...semi-autobiographical account of director Barry Levinson's (Rainman, Good Morning, Vietnam) childhood in Baltimore, Liberty Heights is the fourth in his series of Baltimore pictures, following Diner, Tin Men and Avalon. Not failing the critical success of those earlier films, Levinson's latest offering is an incredibly tender, poignant and sweet account of a town where everyone is simply trying to figure out what it means to be anything--white, black, Jew, good...
...Campbell, the 18-year-old Florida man who forced a two-day closing of Columbine High last month via an e-mailed bomb threat, is using a novel defense: Internet addiction. Campbell pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, with his lawyer claiming the young man's actions occurred in a semi-delusional state, the result of being lost in cyberspace. But if history is any indication, the defense will prove little more than publicity stunt - Campbell's lawyer, Ellis Rubin, has previously waged unsuccessful modernity-based defenses, including television addiction and Prozac-induced nymphomania...
Harvard bird watching has been spotty since October of 1996 when unknown pranksters stole the Ibis from the roof of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...