Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...study, conducted by Susan B. Cochran and Vickie M. Mays, found that many undergraduates will lie about their past sexual experiences to allay a partner's fear about AIDS. The researchers said the study undermines the notion that asking a potential sexual partner about previous sexual behavior is sufficient protection against AIDS...
...message of Peninsula can be distilled into two sentences, this is it: There are certain absolute moral truths that cannot be rationally discerned, but which must nevertheless be accepted on faith. These beliefs are not only the moral beacon for our personal behavior; they are universally applicable, and should be enforced by government decree, if necessary...
...Brezhnev presided over an era of stagnation, but perhaps that was preferable to the nervous breakdown that the U.S.S.R. seems to be experiencing now. Moreover, when Brezhnev was on the Lenin mausoleum, waving like a rusty windup toy at the troops parading by, there was a predictability to Soviet behavior and a stability in international life that in retrospect are beginning to look good to some...
...even more how not to act. If I hadn't already learned at home and in high school, perhaps it was the Eliot Spring Fete, the Hasty Pudding Ball, various faculty dinners or master's open houses that somehow taught me along the way what was socially correct behavior and what was inappropriate and rude. Evidently, a certain portion of the Harvard undergraduate population has yet to learn these lessons...
...Thursday, February 22, I attended the Hasty Pudding production of "Suede Expectations" with a friend. Along with the rest of the audience and cast, we were subjected to the most embarrassing display of juvenile, sophomoric and mean-spirited behavior I have ever witnessed at a Harvard function. Throughout the performance, a handful of the black-tied "sophisticates" in the audience persisted in heckling and verbally abusing the members of the cast, who were doing their level best to continue with their excellent performances. It got so bad that the curtain had to be dropped at one point and an announcement...