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...Women tend to steal for pleasure more than men, but that gender disparity might reflect a reporting bias: women are more likely to be perceived as unbalanced. Kleptomaniacs also tend to suffer from other mental disorders, such as anxiety or depression. As a rule, they steal regularly--on a weekly, and sometimes daily, basis. And most important, they are well aware that what they are doing is wrong; they tend to experience intense regret after the deed is done...
...face of it, a broomstick and a double bass don't seem to have much in common, but when both are employed as flying implements for bespectacled preteen orphans, similarities tend to emerge. The broomstick, as many know, is a mode of transportation for Harry Potter, star of the book series by British author J.K. Rowling. The musical instrument is used to similar effect by Tanya Grotter, protagonist of a popular book series by Russian author Dmitry Yemets. Tanya first showed up in August in Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, which sold 100,000 copies in Russia. Like...
Read a book or two on media theory and it gets worse. “Television is set up with no motive more sinister than to appeal to the largest possible audience—pretty people tend to be more appealing to look at than non-pretty people,” says David Foster Wallace, in a book entitled A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (we know: watch television). This explains the “Extra” commentator with the six-pack abs who taunts my body image for 44 minutes at a shot...
...cute’ and not like ‘Oh, I’m constipated.’” But co-director Melissa E. Miller ’04 has a perfectly reasonable explanation for the levity: “we tend to have more fun when we’re corny, and we perform better when we have more...
...enthusiasm arises in no small part from the close-knit spirit of the company. “There’s a lot of solidarity within the group,” explains producer Mariecel C. Pilapil ’05. Miller agrees, saying “We tend to be a very social group and try to have events outside the studio whenever we can.” Such events include a pre-tech party the weekend before the show and a group trip to the Leverett ’80s Dance. “I love Mainly Jazz...