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...wants to admit it? In part because until a few years ago, romance novels deserved their bad reputation. "People who don't read romance novels still have the perception that they are what they were in the 1970s or '80s," Quinn says. "The heroines were doormats, with all these alpha males bossing them around. I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with...
More than 80 women turned out to eat bagels and hear about the rush procedures of Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma (DG) at Finagle-a-Bagel Friday, continuing a trend of increased interest in female Greek life on campus and confirming the Panhellenic Council’s decision to shop for a new sorority this spring...
...Among its findings: 40 million people are infected with HIV, 3 million of them children. All told, more than 20 million have died of AIDS since 1981. Progress in the research labs has been slow and not that steady, but it has produced some results. Scientists discovered three proteins--alpha-defensins 1, 2 and 3--that may account for the so-called non-progressors, the 1% or 2% of people who contract HIV but never develop AIDS. Also, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new rapid HIV test called OraQuick, which reliably detects HIV antibodies in a blood...
...students lamented the passing of Pacific Sunwear—this most certainly is not the Pacific Coast, and time for sunwear is short. But Alpha-Omega is hardly an improvement. Recent graduates of the College can remember a time when the Square had more student appeal, a time when the space opposite Out of Town News was dedicated not to retail, but to hamburgers...
Even if the situation seems less than desirable, perhaps it is inevitable. The land is owned by Cambridge Savings Bank, and economics dictates that prime real estate commands sky-high rent. Alpha-Omega representative Amit Handa listed Harvard Square as one of Boston’s top three tourist destinations, along with Quincy Market and Newbury Street. Combine that with the concentrated wealth of Cambridge, and the Harvard Square location reaches a comfortable target audience...