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...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...despite that artistic error, the Panthers’ tragedy and subsequent glory somehow come across as unadulterated anyway, a hurdle very rarely leaped by football movies...
...political judgment has taken precedence over standing up for principle. Harvard’s prestige and financial resources could make a significant impact on this case. By not pursuing litigation when there is so little at stake, the University has sent a message that the principle of nondiscrimination is somehow not worthy enough to defend...
...were guided by forceful and visionary principles, the review currently underway has failed to articulate any coherent theme, and is stuck trying to convince the greater community that study abroad, dubbed “internationalization,” mixed with a long-called-for reworking of the Core is somehow avant garde...
What keeps the book from being no more than a series of alphabetically arranged humor columns is the leitmotif of becoming a man: Jacobs somehow turns the effort of reading 33,000 pages into the world's most passive Bildungsroman. The project, it seems, springs less from an urge to soak up information than from a desire to confront his Oedipus complex. His brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important...