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...skeleton that wore a Sunburned Hand of the Man t-shirt; at one point, one of the members who was taking turns playing the drums swung a noose around like a lasso, attempting to rope other band members (but only succeeded in catching microphone stands); the skeleton was thrown out into the audience, where it crowds-surfed for many minutes before coming to its final rest; another band member donned a black executioner’s mask, wrapped the noose around his neck, and feigned death by hanging after throwing the rope over a ventilation pipe...
...Johnson will return to her job at Harvard’s Student Disabilities Office and plans to apply to graduate school in political science, but she hasn’t thrown in the towel yet. “I probably will run for office again at some point in my life,” she says...
...NCAA rules, teams in the same conference are not permitted to meet at that stage of the tournament, but thanks to some kind of error by the selection committee, Harvard’s schedule was thrown into question...
...impatient with blowhard political rhetoric, cannot be persuaded simply through better communication or repackaged Democratic policies from the 1990’s (or before). When people hear a new idea that relies upon an acknowledgement of a changing world, however, they are more receptive to the message being thrown their way. In part, this phenomenon is responsible for much of the radicalism of the Bush Administration; by claiming that 9/11 changed everything, they were able to do things that would have been politically impossible before that tragic day, making the argument that “now things were different...
...weary pitching staff through four straight playoff wins over the Yankees. Cabrera is iffy--he doesn't draw enough walks for number crunchers like Epstein, and several top shortstops are on the market. Lowe, the first pitcher to win the final game in all three playoff rounds, may have thrown his last sinker in Boston. As ESPN analyst (and former New York Mets general manager) Steve Phillips puts it, "He's too high maintenance...