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Your look into the crisis-pregnancy-center (CPC) movement showed that antiabortion centers in many cases are forthright about their services and respectful to the pregnant women who enter their doors. At the same time, I am glad you also included a story about a particular CPC that led a woman to believe it provided abortion services only to berate and cajole her not to have an abortion. While many CPCs are sincere, what I call "counterfeit pregnancy centers" also exist. The abortion issue is already contentious enough. Deceit and misinformation only serve to inflame both sides and emotionally damage...
...first original play, “Fall,” in which he will also play its leading role. Conceived in the early months of last semester, “Fall” takes its name from Cutmore-Scott’s first term at Harvard. In particular, the comedic play centers on his experience as a displaced Londoner in an American university, and emphasizes the unique aspects of Harvard life that students often think of as normal, such as the frenzied pace of life or the compulsion for underage binge drinking. “It would be inaccurate...
...case-by-case basis, not only because people mature at different ages but also because there is simply no definitive law that says that a child must be a certain age before he or she can encounter the word “scrotum.” Instead, in this particular case, the response demonstrates a knee-jerk reaction to one taboo word, rather than appropriate consideration of the context in which it appears...
...verbal and physical abuse by fathers and husbands, and so on.Yet the histories of “head-scarf girls” of the Institute are different: these are comparatively privileged girls whose parents support their pursuit of college education. These girls have given the head scarf a particular semiotic significance: it is for them a “symbol of ‘political Islam,’” and they will drop out of school and commit suicide before they will remove it.In our post-9/11 world, there’s a rhetorical tendency...
...isn’t anything special: “Whether you are addicted to heroin, gambling, cigarettes, sexual deviancy, or eating Milky Way bars, all addictions have certain basic elements in common.” The survey’s questions include questions like “Are there particular areas of the ‘Net, or types of files, you find hard to resist?” (Oh, those Excel spreadsheets!). Once the survey is completed, addicts and non-addicts alike receive lengthy advice reports. For those Harvard students unfamiliar with the word “denial...