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...predecessors (this is the kind of circular logic that Yogi Berra would’ve loved—“It’s not a social nice until we say it’s a social niche!”). And they are virtually impenetrable to anyone except first-year women—who are right to assimilate with upperclass students but wrong in the way that they are doing...
...Harvard women's swimming and diving team clobbered host Darmtouth and Cornell in double-dual meet action on Saturday, winning every event except the final relay...
...Islam, and lots to do with cultural or tribal mores, says Jean Abinader, managing director of the Arab American Institute. "The veil is not required in Islam," he says, although dressing modestly is. It is local interpretation that dictates that women not be seen. Turbans also reflect local culture (except in the case of Sikhs), or often geography. Says Abinader: "Different turbans are outgrowths of the different climates in which they are worn...
...Black Mountain Poets: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan. And finally, the New York school. I’m glad I came to them last, because as soon as I started reading Frank O’Hara, I thought, this guy’s ripping me off. Except he died when I was three...
...admitted it and it wasn’t like this was the first time he had done this sort of thing. How hard could the process be? It was hard enough for me to be failing all my classes. But that would be okay. Clearly my professor would understand. Except he didn’t. Even though he knew what I was going through (he was on the Ad Board) he didn’t offer to give me help with my work. He didn’t give me any extensions. He blinked for a long time, thought...