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...called the pleasantest of Shaw’s volume of “Plays Pleasant”—centers on the return of a mother and her three children to their homeland, after having left 18 years earlier because of the mother’s desire to avoid her husband. Their return is prompted by the mother’s desire for her eldest daughter to follow in her footsteps and become the next free radical feminist thinker. However, her plans become complicated when a dentist falls in love with the daughter and the dentist?...
...formally at least, each sex has access to most of the same choices and opportunities as the other. Despite this “legal” equality, students find it too easy to swim along with the subtly sexist cultural flow—or judge it too hard to avoid. Although women don’t like the idea of lining up outside a final club, dignity drops down the list of priorities when there is nowhere else to go on a Saturday night. Likewise, while a lot of men don’t necessarily want to regularly vomit...
...Patrick responded that cutting income taxes would require an increase in property taxes, adding that Healey and Gov. Mitt Romney had raised state fees by more than $700 million to avoid increasing taxes...
...psychology.”CONSULTING WITH A HARVARD TWISTBut those with the professional training clearly think otherwise. Nadine C. Warner of Admissions Consultants stresses that all of the company’s employees have admissions experience; they’ve seen thousands of applications and know how to avoid the most common pitfalls. Without admissions experience, she’s skeptical of the Harvard companies. “I worry that [their experience] is too specific to the individual experience as opposed to having admissions committee experience so that you know students across the board,” says Warner.Klaar...
...House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi was working hard to avoid any overconfidence on a weekend trip to Connecticut, where three key House races are being contested. She repeatedly implored Democratic activists to stay focused on getting out the vote and not assume victory was assured. "If the election were today, we would win, but the election is not today," she said. "We've got two Mount Everests to climb, and they're called Monday and Tuesday." At the events, when supporters came up to say how proud they were about her becoming the first female Speaker, she would quickly reroute...