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When I was 13, I secretly read my parents' old copy of Dr. David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, first published in 1969. Standing nervously at the bookshelf, I was poised to replace the volume quickly if I heard footsteps. The chapter on homosexuality explained, "The homosexual must constantly search for the one man, the one penis, the one experience, that will satisfy him. He is the sexual Diogenes, always looking for the penis that pleases. That is the reason he must change partners endlessly. [In gay marriages] the principals never stop cruising. They...
...Democrats had seemed rather pleased with themselves so far this campaign season for having managed to avoid one of their typical self-immolating fights. Instead, once Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had each taken an early contest, we heard a lot of self-satisfied gloss about how the party would make history with the first female presidential nominee or the first minority...
...Massachusetts Hall was teaching them—and us—a lesson in the power of glamour.On Dec. 10, President Drew G. Faust announced that Harvard would soon be marginally less than totally unaffordable for families that are marginally less than totally loaded. It was the throat clearing heard ’round the world. The Times pounced on the story, as did just about everyone else. Next year hundreds, if not thousands, of Harvard students will benefit, as will their peers at a handful of other High Society schools. But anyone with the misfortune...
...provide “additional help” for his students to ease the workload.But students said they often experience the opposite effect: that so-called easy classes are actually much harder.“There’s been classes I’ve taken that I heard were easy that got harder,” said Jana C. Berglund ’08, “And I would blame that on the Q guide.”Some students question the Q’s usefulness, contributing to lower response rates.Siobhan P. Connolly...
Indeed, many participants were cautiously optimistic that the Alliance could have an impact with such initiatives. Michaelis, for one, was encouraged by what he heard about the media mechanism. "The people from the U.N. were very open, they got the message," he says. "They understand that it can't be the usual suspects, the same major media corporations. It can work, as long as it has diverse voices and isn't censored...