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...culture bent of the book, Dowd avoids the trap of writing in the tone of a half-baked Cosmopolitan column. She artfully weaves together facts, studies, and thoughts from friends and celebrities. She scathingly mocks women who bow to the cult of plastic surgeons, men who cannot admit to themselves that they are intimidated by powerful women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd is posing a more...
...joined by upstarts Five Star Outlaw, The Thickness, a?nd the Adam Sloane Trio. 18+. The Middle East Upstairs. 9 p.m. $8. (CEJ)Monday, Oct. 31Bloodhound Gang. The Crimson does not condone anything the Bloodhound Gang does, including extraordinarily inappropriate uses of the NATO phonetic alphabet, but it will admit to having spent most of its junior high years listening to “The Bad Touch.” Opening are Electric Eel Shock, Program the Dead, and Cold Read. Avalon Ballroom, 15 Landsdowne St., Boston. 6 p.m. $15 advance, $17 day of show. (BBC)Cover Bands Halloween Party...
...tenure, Harvard was struggling with the problem of reducing its number of Jewish students, which had climbed to 27 percent of the student body by the mid-1920s. In order to quell this influx of smart, seemingly-qualified students, the admissions office instituted a new framework with which to admit applicants; instead of just academic accomplishments and IQ tests, the admissions department would take into account human attributes like “moral character” and “manly vigor.” In following that philosophy, Wilbur J. Bender ’27, Dean of Admissions...
Warning: This column is intended to induce existential discomfort in the reader. And if it does, I must admit that I will be quite pleased!Why aren’t we all appalled by how many of us take our 17 years or more of education and sell it off to the highest-paying corporate bidder? Perhaps a few of us have excuses for such behavior, but it’s impossible to see the overall trend as anything but morally reprehensible. When you get down to it, the majority of us are coming from comfortable backgrounds and taking comfortable...
...Independent and has a knack for taking tough, principled stands almost no one could disagree with. She's against the repression of journalists in Russia and the stoning of women for adultery in Nigeria, and dammit, she doesn't care who she offends! "I'm the first to admit that in some ways, this is a fantasy President," says Davis. "We want and dream of a President who will make the right choices for the right reasons and not based on pleasing factions of their party...