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...secure love with her third husband, Maurice Goudeket, a man 17 years her junior who was a Jew, yet she was an anti-Semite and in the Nazi-occupied France of World War II displayed what Thurman generously calls a "moral lethargy." At 47, she began a serious love affair with her stepson, then 16. "A real woman is good," a man who knew her told Thurman. "Colette was not good...
...Stevens was frustrated by the bureaucracy he had to navigate to get a new I.D. card, but otherwise had no problems with the University's handling of the affair. Gibson says that the biggest fault on the school's part is not having doors that automatically lock, especially in robbery-plagued Matthews Hall. "It would be a relatively minor expense that would save a lot of kids a lot of grief," he says. All three roommates said their proctor had made it clear that there were robberies and that they should lock their doors...
...that all three of us are here, it's a family affair," said Mark, the eldest. "And familial pride, besides my own and the team's, is at stake. And so I will take it even more personally than before if we lose...
...informal affair was dubbed "auspicious" by Susan J. Pharr, director of Harvard's program on U.S.-Japan relations. Hashimoto drew laughs by saying he thought he was expected not to comment on world affairs, but to challenge Harvard students to a Kendo sparring session...
...depth of relationships, the sincerity of motivation, or the truth of speech--especially earnest speech." For Purdy, our culture is entrenched in a Seinfeldian shtick, an "endless joke...not exactly at anyone's expense, but rather at the expense of the idea that anyone might take the whole affair seriously...