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@Herald this week


For years, Yalies have been yelling at the paper at dinner time. "What a dumb pick!" sports fans would say when one of our sports editors would screw up on our weekly Smack Zone. Well, tough guy, now's your chance to show them who knows sports. Pick ten games. If you beat out the rest of Yale, then you get to star on the pages of the Herald as the next week's guest in the Smack Zone. Can you handle it? Try it out.

The debut of @Herald Comics, your source for over 50 of your favorite comics, updated every day. We've got everything from Peanuts to Doonesbury to Frumpy the Clown. Yes, Frumpy the Clown .


Expanded Ivy Notebook

The print edition's Ivy Notebook tells you what is going on at other Ivy League schools. On @Herald, our version gives it to you in their own words. Check it out.

Music reviews

Want to buy some music? We've compiled every album review we've ever put online in one convenient index. So be sure to check here before you hop over to Cutler's to pick up Tori Amos' Boys For Pele.

Also, be sure to check out the reviews of the new Six Finger Satellite, Social Distortion, and John Scofield albums -- all three feature downloadable sound samples that let you hear the music we're writing about.


In the print edition this week

Grade grubbing



Grade grubbing? At Yale? Nah. Couldn't be.

See the complete story.




In News: A city policy on demolishing old buildings is causing controversy. Yale's new budget meets its goal of cutting the deficit, while a graduate student vote could change the way the grad school works. Environmentalists visited Yale last weekend; some Yale alums will be pretty psyched when the calendar turns to 2000. A Yale researcher is on the cover of Science. Did you get tapped? And of course, Police Blotter and Around the Globe.


In A&E: We are Yalies; ergo, we watch TV. But do we also spot trains and shoot heroin? Or read comics? Or talk to people we don't know about our love lives? Perhaps we listen to music (by John Scofield, Social Distortion, or Six Finger Satellite). Or read the new Joan D idion book. Confused? Let Minor Threats sort it out for you.


In Sports: Dan "The Man" Thompson '96 has gone on to minor league success. Speaking of minor league, Mike May thinks board game IMs are strictly that. Ten nis ain't, though, and neither is field hockey. They rock. How do they get the horses to swim in water polo? We've got this week's home games, thi s week's top matchup, and -- yes! -- Smack Zone, featuring our first-ever guest, Molly Woodroofe '96. You too can be a Smacker!


In Opinion: Rachel Trousdale on gay marriage, John Helzer on something about Bob Dole's butt, Heather Hammer on her grandma's love of the Beltway, Xue-Qui Chiang on Hong Kong, and Rob Siegel on the importance on being drunk when approaching Montreal steak.


In the rest of the paper: Our fiction this week is by Cam Hoang.


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