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...every overweight member, and the only black, Vietnamese, and Korean members, were summarily uprooted from their house and effectively evicted from their chapter, by many accounts part of an image makeover mandated by adult officers of DZ’s national organization. We use the term “adult?? loosely. For the national organization’s seeming obsession with image—reminiscent of middle schoolers protective of their status in the “in crowd”—completely contradicts the bond of sisterhood they claim to uphold. Though the remaining members...
...there is a difference between gratuitously employing “adult?? words in a children’s book and complementing one’s narrative with the use of words that signify the mysterious adult world around the protagonist. If taboo subjects are brought up in a children’s book and dealt with in the proper manner, then it should not be censored...
Maturity, growth, and change come to people in different ways, and it is tempting—perhaps even appropriate—to fault my friends for limiting their lives by making so many “adult?? decisions at such an early stage. But what right do I have, when my life is so uncomplicated by comparison...
...three school years spent apart, it’s not that we irrevocably grew apart as friends. Instead, we’ve simply chosen to reapply our leisure time. Collectively, we have somehow found ourselves relocated to—dare I say it—more “adult?? venues: bars, other cities, and less familiar blocks within our sprawling hometown. Unconsciously, we left Kips Bay to embrace the idea of doing new things with other people: other friends, complete strangers, and our classmates and roommates from college...
...people who need it most and we have a supply which should come in time to protect [people] for at least the peak flu season, if not the entire flu season.” But Palfrey said there will not “be enough vaccines for every healthy adult?? this year. As in years past, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is collaborating with UHS to work toward limiting the spread of the flu. While vaccinations will not be offered in the dining halls, as they were before the shortages, HUDS officials say they hope to spread hygiene...