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...Former Yale president Kingman Brewster, Jr., said that a liberal education “makes it less likely that you will be bored with life ... and less likely that you will be a bore to those around you.” Besides the fact that this could be more reassuring??for the price of my tuition, I would prefer to be “guaranteed scintillating”—will our liberal education achieve even this modest goal? Forget preparing us for our future as citizens. What about our future as conversationalists? Especially because a full...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Don’t Block the Box | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...percent of American men experienced some kind of “homosexual contact” or that half of the women interviewed were not virgins at the time of their marriage would lead to a majoritarian morality, Igo posits that many Americans found Kinsey’s report reassuring??it provided them with a sexual-behavioral spectrum on which they could situate themselves.Because Kinsey separated these norms by age, class, religion, and gender, he created “a more finely grained scale along which nearly everyone could at least aspire to be normal...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Igo’s History Scores Above ‘Average’ | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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