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...late video. This was upsetting, not because I was bothered by having to pay two dollars, but because the video in question had been returned on time. In fact, I had gone out of my way to return it on time, leaving in the middle of a holiday party thrown by friends to take the tape back. I informed the woman at the counter that I had returned the tape on time. She insisted that I had not. I again informed her that she was incorrect...
Dear old Saint Valentine hardly has a romantic story. He spent his working days as a pagan priest and physician in ancient Rome until he was thrown in jail for protecting persecuted Christians. While in jail, Valentine converted to Christianity and restored sight to the jailer's daughter. Then they clubbed him to death, which when you think about it, was a relatively painless way to achieve martyrdom in those days. It sure beat the lions...
Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again, currently playing at the cozy Boston Center for the Arts, tries incredibly hard to be sultry and irreverent in its comical look at sex. All types of sexualities--philandering housewives, been-there done-that prostitutes, straying husbands, and naive waifs--are thrown into LaChiusa's libidinous landscape. The play tackles not just run-of-the-mill sex, but sex between men and between people of different classes, sex in movie theaters and on futons, sex in the 1900s and 1960s...
...agree with Rudenstine's belief that diversity itself produces valuable results. "Such diversity is not an end in itself, or a pleasant but dispensable accessory. It is the substance from which much human learning, understanding, and wisdom derive," the report says. Having a diverse group of students on campus, thrown together by extracurricular activities or other events of their own choice, can indeed foster wisdom in the best of cases...
McLaughlin was thrown out of the vehicle and landed semi-conscious in the street, according to the police report. He suffered a broken nose and lacerations requiring 40 stitches...