The Peradeniya campus, in the telling by Thalif Deen, is a place where scholarship and satire mixed as naturally as monsoon winds and mango trees — a compact world of rituals, inside jokes, high-table formalities and the kind of campus legends that survive generations. The Sunday Times piece...
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If you squint hard enough at the cell phone policies and meeting dress codes, you might just see the ghost of “The Hoodie”—but don’t even think about covering your head on Mike Vrabel’s watch. The ex-linebacker and noted Titans motivator has returned to Foxborough, and his first message to the...
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Six days before a college football player was arrested at San Francisco International Airport in a dispute that began when a US Airways employee asked him to pull up his sagging pants, a man who was wearing little but women's undergarments was allowed to fly the airline, a US Airways spokeswoman...
Police in Florida say a mother was visiting her child's school when she attempted to impose a dress code on another mom over allegations of excessive cleavage. Laura Campanello was charged with disorderly conduct after saying the other mom was showing "too much breast" -- then allegedly pulling...