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...While there’s clearly something wrong with trivializing important issues and causes like gay rights, the environment, or citizenship for the sake of having the political equivalent of the “It Bag,” it’s the air of self-proclaimed importance that’s really the problem. I take no issue with celebrities having political opinions, and (most of the time) I don’t mind when they vocalize those opinions. After all, that’s their constitutionally guaranteed right. But, when they use (or, rather, abuse) their celebrity...
...distractions are instantly eliminated. They can learn and focus in a comfortable environment in which they need not worry about the way they appear to members of the opposite sex. By surrounding students with others undergoing the same bizarre transformation, single-sex classrooms provide an atmosphere as conducive to self-exploration and self-understanding as to undistracted learning, an essential component to gender relations of any kind...
Johnny Jen—a self-described “Asian guy with a mohawk”—gave a workshop on social confidence this afternoon in the Quincy Bullitt Room...
...Maybe five topics per semester generate a moderate level of discussion, and the rest is just the same four dudes arguing with each other. If you happen to post something that even vaguely offends one of the hyenas' sensibilities, prepare to be absolutely savaged in the way only a self-righteous kid bored at his laptop...
...render as much support as possible to that kind of organization under a DPJ government. However, what ISAF is trying to do is to bring peace by suppression, by force. My philosophy is that no people can be ruled by sheer force. In the past Afghanistan was a self-sustaining country in terms of food supply, but now the self-sufficiency rate has plunged to a level of 40%. They are living in a kind of sheer poverty, and what is most needed is to give a stable life to the majority of people living in Afghanistan. That means that...