Monthly Archives: September 2005

Harvard Endowment Passes $25 Billion

BOSTON (AP) – Harvard University’s riches have surged past $25 billion, the school announced Friday, but the news came amid signs that the world’s wealthiest university is struggling to find a permanent CEO for its in-house money management company. With … Continue reading

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Harvard Endowment Passes $25 Billion

BOSTON (AP) – Harvard University’s riches have surged past $25 billion, the school announced Friday, but the news came amid signs that the world’s wealthiest university is struggling to find a permanent CEO for its in-house money management company. With … Continue reading

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Harvard Endowment Passes $25 Billion

BOSTON (AP) – Harvard University’s riches have surged past $25 billion, the school announced Friday, but the news came amid signs that the world’s wealthiest university is struggling to find a permanent CEO for its in-house money management company. With … Continue reading

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There Is No Iraq

Everyone is wrong — from the arrogant neo-clowns who brought you this war to the mindless bureaucrats who maintain it to the well-intentioned intellectuals that are grasping for a decent and humane way out. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the … Continue reading

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Can’t Look, Can’t Look Away

Human nature being what it is, we were unable to read one more story about the porno site offering GI’s free access in return for gory pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan without trying to find the source and judge for … Continue reading

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Ready for Next Season

Nature Physics magazine explains the secret for building the perfect sand castle – but only 7 people in the world can understand it, and none of them has ever been to the beach… Anyone who has built a sandcastle recognizes … Continue reading

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Suck a Fisherman’s Friend for Luck

Sucking a Fishermen’s Friend could get you into trouble Police in Germany are warning motorists that sucking a Fishermen’s Friend could get them into trouble. It comes after a 24-year-old driver was found to be over the legal drink-drive limit … Continue reading

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Penile Panacea: Licensed to Kill

As part of our continuing efforts to warn Americans of the growing Wave of Asian Weirdness represented by the emergence of the demographic colossus China on the world stage, we present Grandmaster Tu Jin-Sheng, inventor and chief practitioner of Penis … Continue reading

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The Gray Lady Strays into Pay to Play

As all regular on-line readers undoubtedly know by now, the gray lady of American journalism, the New York Times, as gone to a two-tiered system for their web content – just the facts, m’am, for free, and the cutting analysis … Continue reading

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Photo of the Day

No story to go with this photo, we just liked the look of it. Perhaps because the wild blue yonder represents the light at the end of a long, dark seven months of teaching without a break, due to end … Continue reading

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Why We Need to Watch the Chinese, But Not Too Closely

Woman, 71, pulls car with teeth A 71-year-old woman has pulled a car for 65ft – with her teeth – in China. Wang Xiaobei performed the stunt with a car weighing more than a tonne in Jinan, Shandong province, where … Continue reading

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Divine Nine

Back in the early 1960’s, five young dudes moved separately to New York City from different states.  They met at the basketball courts at Green and Washington streets, where a group of 30 or 40 young, unemployed black kids would … Continue reading

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