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...took years for me to realize that I was gay, years more to tell others and more time yet to form any kind of stable emotional bond with another man. Because my sexuality had emerged in solitude--and without any link to the idea of an actual relationship--it was hard later to reconnect sex to love and self-esteem. It still is. But I persevered, each relationship slowly growing longer than the last, learning in my 20s and 30s what my straight friends had found out in their teens. But even then my parents and friends never asked...
What, exactly, does this record prove beyond an unimpressive attention span? Dartboard doesn’t want to sound skeptical of our fair leader, but even White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan couldn’t bring himself to provide many details on Bush’s actual service, just the dusty records thereof. “These documents show the days on which he was paid,” McClellan underwhelmingly said in a statement. “That’s what they show.” Given this half-hearted declaration, Dartboard is not quite na?...
Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein, who taught Ellwood at the College, said his former student “combines, in the Kennedy School tradition, actual work in public policy with research in public policy issues...
...actual performance, which combined two of Jackson’s biggest hits and one of Timberlake’s most recent, could have been groundbreaking. Barely a generation has passed since the white singer Petula Clarke insisted on touching the arm of black musician Harry Belafonte during a duet on her 1968 NBC special. Despite pressure to cut the segment in “deference” to (racist) Southern viewers, NBC exercised the good judgment to leave the duet...
...these efforts were not pathetic enough, just last spring, the UC created an actual task force determined to spice up our love lives. The Council initially earmarked between $1,000-2,000 in funding to combat the undergraduate dating crisis. The ingenious solutions included offering discounted movie tickets and a speaker series on dating etiquette to help lessen the burden of approaching that special someone. Even our new UC vice president was in on the idea: “Dating is pretty abysmal at Harvard,” explained Michael R. Blickstead...