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Exhibit B: Merriam Webster defines the word as "an effeminate man or boy," but also more generally, "a timid or cowardly person."

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Saga of the Sissy Shirt | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

"Creating a shirt about sissies is not, in my opinion, an effective way to create conversation," said Garland, a women and gender studies women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator who even says Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of his favorite books. "I'm glad that the University banned...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Saga of the Sissy Shirt | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

Probably not - because experts doubt the measures did much to boost safety in the first place. "You can imagine someone whispering into the ear of an official at Homeland Security and saying, 'If we don't do something and there's another attack, then we're going to get hammered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Security Rules: Are We Any Safer? | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

Likewise, requiring passengers to remain seated for the last hour of the flight has little apparent safety value. "I've discussed that with many people within the aviation-security field. Nobody for the life of them can figure out what that would accomplish," says Douglas Laird, president of the international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Security Rules: Are We Any Safer? | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

By definition, terrorism succeeds by making us feel powerless. It is more often a psychological threat than an existential one. The authorities compound the damage when they overreact - by subjecting grandmothers to pat-downs and making it intolerable to travel. Even though the Christmas bombing suspect had been stopped, stripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson: Passengers Are Not Helpless | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

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