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Nelson T. Greaves ’10, in particular, is hysterical as Erysichthon, a king who is punished by the god Demeter for cutting down a sacred tree. Demeter sics an excitingly creepy Hunger (Sara L. Wright ’09) on the king. As Wright quite literally clings to Greaves, his character descends into a starvation-induced madness, eating everything in sight and selling his mother into slavery when the money runs out. Erysichthon doesn’t think it’s so funny, of course, especially not the part where he eats his own foot...
...Lampoon were a political party, its platform would be “cut and run.” Police arrested a fleeing Lampoon editor on Sunday morning after he allegedly attempted to cut down newly planted trees on the Mt. Auburn Street island outside the Lampoon Castle. A Harvard University police officer saw James A. Powers Jr. ’08—an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—in the process of cutting down trees at about...
...these points I usually felt so terrible about the uniform deprivation—we couldn’t even wear camouflage prints to school, because it reminded the school administrators of war—that I would pick up a stick and whack it against a tree until I felt better. However, now I no longer have to fantasize about boarding school or knee socks or lying about pushing someone out of a tree. Now I can make my imaginary uniform a reality thanks to the efforts of Nicolas Ghesquiere, the boy wonder behind venerable fashion house Balenciaga...
...Orange trees are even tougher on their young. A typical orange tree carries about 100,000 pollinated blossoms, each of which is a potential orange, complete with the seeds that are potential trees. But in the course of a season, only about 500 oranges are actually produced. The tree determines which ones make the cut, shedding the blossoms that are not receiving enough light or that otherwise don't seem viable. It is, for a tree, a sort of selective termination on a vast scale. "You've got 99% of the babies being thrown out by the parent," says Mock...
...Bruises and gender wars aren't the only dangers for school officials in England: Conkers represents a safety hazard and raises the threat of lawsuits. Last year, after a student fell from a tree while searching for the perfect conker, his school district chopped down a row of horse chestnut trees. Since then dozens of other schools have started requiring students to wear safety goggles or banned the game altogether...