Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...League basketball team. "Tempers really flare sometimes," he says. "People seem to use [IMs] as an outlet. They let their anger out on the court." True to Giampaolo's words, a thrown elbow in a recent Winthrop-Lowell frisbee game came dangerously close to launching the entire affair into a Jerry Springer-style brawl, as players from both teams had to be separated by a vaguely muscular bald guy wearing black jeans from...
Considering a special faculty dinner at you local Harvard House? These power-schmoozing opportunities come off painfully low-budget despite the efforts of HDS to dress up the affair with dim lighting, tablecloths and live music. Don't fall for it. This weekend, she's just a playah...
...past four months I have been having a secret affair with my stepbrother. Our parents got married last month and have no idea about our special relationship. We met five months ago and were totally into each other from the start. He's 18 and I'm 15, well, almost 16. We just started having sex and I feel like it is wrong. I mean, we really love each other, but we are kind of related. Do we need to tell our parents? Are we committing incest? Please help. Sincerely, Incesty from Poughkeepsie...
...none is more interesting, and more implausible, than a piece in the November 30 issue of The New Republic. Writer and historian Sean Wilentz claims that "It is impossible to imagine that the relationship of Tom and Sally was an inhumane one. The conditions were ugly, but the affair was not." He goes on to compare the relationship of Jefferson and Hemings to that of another Presidential pair: "The story of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky is about lust consensually expressed, and about loneliness and arrogance, and about stupidity and an astounding lack of judgment. The story of Thomas Jefferson...
...power that allowed Jefferson to compel Hemings into his bed. It was power which allowed the affair to go on for so many years. It was power which left Hemings' manumission uncertain. Hemings could have had absolutely no agency in such an arrangement, as no slave in a situation with a white master ever had. Numerous masters engaged in sexual activity with their slaves, threatening that they would be sold or worse if they did not comply. Why do we assume Jefferson should have been any different...