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...even if U.S. technology is unique, no self-respecting terrorist would be stopped by a software license, and the Russian mafia could certainly hire agents to buy encryption within the United States. The most popular encryption software on the Internet, PGP, is free for download as long as users assert that they are U.S. residents...
...morally obligated to come out of the closet (when we can), to assert vocally our sexuality and to demand the equal rights and public recognition (through marriage and military service) that we are entitled to as citizens. We have the opportunity to live as quiet homosexuals only because more "noisy" queers have pushed the left farther left and created room for us in the center...
...bound first-years shouldn't panic yet. While it's true that most Quad residents refute the maxim "absence makes the River heart grow fonder," it's also true that many claim assimilation into Quad culture to be a preferred alternative. And some even go so far as to assert that space has a positive effect on social relationships...
...challenges the limits of such a canon by examining lesbian desire. Each section of the story begins with an ignorant question posed by a heterosexual, such as "Why Do You Sleep With Girls?" and "Which One of You Is the Man?" The narrator's complex and playfully oblique answers assert the legitimacy of her love though they never really tell us a story--veering instead towards commentary and description. I see the lack of substantial plot in Winterson's writing less as a flaw in her abilities as raconteur and more as her attempt to defy the genre of short...
...women embrace biology, which male-chauvinist diehards still equate with "destiny," won't they have to give up something else--like dignity and free will? The popularity of evolutionary theories featuring man-the-hunter from Mars and his Venusian sidekick, woman, has led many feminist scholars to assert that biology is a sexist "ideology," not a science, and Darwin just another dead white male with an ax to grind. In the mid-'80s, the influential French feminist theorist Christine Delphy advised thinking women to "ignore" biology, and in this country there were mutterings that research into sex differences should...