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Political correctness prohibits us from saying, “That’s so gay!” in a derogatory context, yet the incidence of illness-as-punchline remains an all too common occurrence in our otherwise hyper-P.C. environment. Straight people don’t say, “That’s so gay” because they understand why it might be hurtful; but knowledge about mental illness is often lacking and misinformed, and many underestimate (or fail to consider) the severity of mental illness and the grief that jokes at its expense may cause...

Author: By Emily R. Kaplan | Title: Other People’s Disease | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...Crimson has now won nine straight and 14 of its last...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rain Preempts North Division Clincher | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...made it tough to come back.” The Big Green would tack on another run to end the inning with a 4-0 lead. Unger was touched up for additional runs in the second and third innings, and he was pulled from the mound after walking three straight in the third. “I couldn’t locate my fastball,” Unger said. “I was getting behind some guys, having trouble getting inside on righties.”Senior Jake Bruton came on in relief, giving up a two-run single...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saturday Split Dooms Title Chances | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

...appreciate your thirties while you can still skinny-dip. Someday you really will be old. The problem is, no matter where the script turns, the plot is frivolous. It’s a funny movie, but it’s uncomfortably lodged between the patently ridiculous and the irritatingly straight-faced. “Sing Now” carries a strong summer-camp feeling of petty drama. But beyond the carpe diem attitude improvement, the film contains little real character development. Between entertaining romps like a stoned Frisbee golf game and sex fantasies about a Swedish nanny...

Author: By Benjamin C. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sing Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

...conversation eventually moved on, and questions petered out. After he left, reporters discussed his apology and his excuse. No one was satisfied: "How's admitting he wanted to keep a particular story alive 'straight talk'? Maybe it's 'meta straight talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Media Mob Bites Back | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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