Full Name: Leonard Joseph Marx Profession: Comedian Biography: Chico Marx was an American comedian, actor, and pianist, famed as the eldest of the Marx Brothers comedy troupe alongside Harpo Marx, Groucho Marx, Gummo Marx, and Zeppo Marx. He grew up in a Franco-German Jewish family steeped in vaudeville tradition and his uncle was Al Shean, a renowned vaudeville comedian. Chico's stage persona was a charismatic and wily con artist, with an exaggerated Italian accent, donning shabby clothes, a curly-haired wig, and a Tyrolean hat.

Over the past decade, the Muslim community has become included in diversity initiatives in the United States. Hollywood is finally producing shows that feature Muslim characters, such as Hulu’s Ramy, Netflix’s Mo, and Disney+’s Ms. Marvel. Universities are adjusting dining hall hours to accommodate Muslim students who fast during Ramadan, and they are increasing the number of reflection spaces on campus to facilitate Muslim ritual prayer. Nike launched its Pro Hijab, a headscarf for Muslim women athletes, and Olympic medalist Ibtihaj Muhammad became its model.

This year, even after student aid, I faced a $47,000 bill to attend Duke University. My turn to porn to close the gap was so famous, in part, due to my reasoning. Faced with either a degree from a less prestigious school or decades of crushing debt, a few hours of work on a porn set revealed itself to be the best way to avoid getting screwed. To make matters worse, my income now makes me ineligible for the $13,000 in aid I was receiving.

Billionaire Marc Benioff recently put his vast wealth to work on a cause that is plaguing his hometown of San Francisco, donating $30 million to the University of California-San Francisco to study the causes of homelessness. The city has experienced a boom in wealth thanks to the massive tech companies that are headquartered there yet homelessness has skyrocketed as rents continue to climb, leaving an estimated 7,500 people in the city without a home.

France suddenly woke up last week to the fact that hereafter, by virtue of Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s conquest of Catalonia (see p. 17), she would have only one neighbor—Rebel Spain—to her south instead of the two warring neighbors she has had for the last two and a half years. Moreover, the realization grew that this new Spanish neighbor, puppet of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, might not prove to be the friendly one that France has known for more than 100 years.

The seventh season of “Game of Thrones” has been illegally downloaded or streamed more than 1 billion times. According to a report from anti-piracy firm MUSO, the seven episodes of “Game of Thrones” season seven each averaged 14.

Air ForceThe Air Force wants to build a tee-tunnel net like this to protect local Japanese from lousy Air Force golfers. Folks in the other military services routinely joke about how much Air Force types like playing golf. Sure, all the services have golf courses, but the flyboys have the most. We took note of this last Friday when we posted, without comment, an Air Force contract solicitation labeled “Golf Course Herbicide,” which sounded like one of the service’s core chemical-warfare competencies.

If you’ve ever considered it odd that U.S. Christmas traditions revolve around indoor trees (real and plastic) and a plump, bearded man sliding down chimneys… you’re not wrong. In fact, our conception of Santa Claus can largely be attributed to a single 1828 poem, Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” which enshrined the nation’s image of Santa–with his “little round belly” and a beard “as white as the snow–and propagated the idea of him coming through chimneys to deliver gifts in stockings, now common knowledge to children across the country.

Nearly 300,000 resident doctors of government hospitals in India have been on strike since Monday after a 31-year-old resident trainee doctor was raped and murdered while working in Kolkata, the capital of India’s West Bengal state. As a result, elective and non-emergency procedures have been halted. Her body was found last Friday in a seminar room at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where she worked. A suspect has since been arrested, according to reports.

India’s junior foreign minister M.J. Akbar has sued one of more than a dozen women who have accused him of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior, according to the Press Trust of India, as the #MeToo movement reverberates through the South Asian nation. Akbar, who has denied sexual harassment allegations, filed a criminal defamation case against journalist Priya Ramani, according to PTI. The minister said Ramani, who wrote about Akbar in Vogue India, “willfully, deliberately, intentionally and maliciously” defamed him.