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...first contemplated using this column for evil purposes when TIME agreed to shell out $10,000 to adopt a stretch of highway for me. If they'll do that, I reasoned, imagine what other people will do. I dreamed of strong-arming mayors to give me keys to their cities, persuading a minor league team to let me throw out the first pitch and getting women to talk to me. Then it struck me: I needed to see the Playboy Mansion...
...past year, when his wife divorced him and he reopened the mansion to parties, was probably the best of his life. I suspect that may be due to the invention of his beloved Viagra--I'm sure it's all related. "Now all I have to do is adopt a highway," he said. "I've adopted a couple of twins. That's more expensive." I had no idea what he meant. But joking about twins seemed like a cool, International Playboy kind of thing, so I laughed...
Instead of waiting for our instructors to challenge our X, Y proclamations, we might reshape ourselves in the liberal tradition and throw off the shackles of identity labels. We might choose to resist the urge to adopt opinions that appear to derive from our identities and instead cloak ourselves in the liberal traditions of open-minded observation, logic, and close analysis. Instead of sticking by our favored X, Y constructions, maybe we should instead subscribe only to a single shared maxim: As a student, I feel curious...
...left out the perspective of adoptive parents. They are required to jump through many legal and social hoops to adopt a child. When they get a child through legally binding adoptive procedures, they provide all the necessities of life that natural parents would. But what rights, courtesies and considerations are available to the adoptive parents? The possibly fragile foundation achieved by those adoptive parents through years of love and support may now be jeopardized by open adoption files. ROBERT ERDMANN San Diego...
...Harvard-affiliated woman was sexually assaulted inside Byerly Hall early Tuesday evening, according to Harvard University police--just hours after hundreds of students rallied in the Yard advocating that the University adopt tougher policies against sexual violence...