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...Texas state board of education is deleting 300 sensitive items from proposed high school health texts. They include hot-line numbers for AIDS information groups, references to anal and oral intercourse, facts about state laws against sex with minors, condom instructions and mentions of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Critics of the changes say the board has fallen under the influence of the radical right...
Premeds are a much maligned group at Harvard. Not a week goes by when some joke about our little stressed friends appears on the Op-ed pages of some campus journal. The popular stereotype portrays them as cut-throat anal retentive control freaks--a mob of students armed with red-blue black green click pens and mechanical pencils converging on the Science Center en mass at precisely nine o'clock every morning...
...spend their Thanksgiving break studying--they can do so regardless of impending exams, but I think it is reasonable to say that a fair number of students would prefer to spend their break unwinding, vacationing, or spending time at home with their families. Harvard should not encourage the "anal" tendencies of some pre-meds by forcing all Chemistry 30 students to spend their vacation studying. I am writing this letter because, as a non-concentrator, I can. I'm not trying to impress the professor and I won't fail Chemistry 30 because...
...then there's the bean-counting anal-retentive jerk who insists on splitting all expenses with his wife, even those that are exclusively his. He apparently hates warmth of any kind, since he enjoys nothing more than eating ice cream with the windows wide open, and treats his marriage like a business arrangement...
...large-scale orderliness; planners fail to see the trees for the forest. During the past couple of decades, the relentlessly-raze-and- rebuild notion of progress has been overtaken by a mania for historic preservation, which is a great improvement. But preservationism can also tend toward the prissy, the anal and the monomaniacal and become a kind of by-the- book undertaker's approach that makes dead and dying downtowns prettier but not quite alive...