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Anonymous sources are of course among the newspaper reporter's best friends, without whom the cause of informing the public would be severely set back. But anonymity is also a tremendous aid to the resentful, the scandalous and the cowardly, and the signs are that the tidal of wave of anonymous comment made possible by the Internet is getting even bigger. Or that, at any rate, is the Read more...

I had nearly completed the alumni questionnaire when I came to a question containing a word I haven't thought of since high school. An ancient word. A word that calls back an amazing time when days lasted 24 hours and weeks lasted seven days ... The question was: What are your hobbies? I reread the sentence. Hobbies? I tried to think of something I do just for the sheer joy of doing Read more...

This woman heard that milk baths would make you beautiful. She left a note for her milkman to leave 15 gallons of milk. When the milkman read the note he felt there must be a mistake. He thought she probably meant 1.5 gallons, so knocked on the door to clarify the point. The woman came to the door and the milkman said, "I found your note to leave 15 gallons of milk. Did you mean 15 Read more...