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...feel threatened by a woman's aggressiveness in the bedroom. As a result, women contend, sex is better, more inventive. Though such pairings have long been regarded as "unnatural," supporters argue that they are biologically astute. Since men reach their sexual peak around the age of 20, and women attain theirs in the 30s, sex drives are better matched. Says Jessica Myers, 43, a fund raiser in Trenton who is married to Editor Richard Carlin, 31: "These relationships make sense because women live longer...
Farrakhan was right to deplore the fact that there are two disparate and separate Black worlds in the city. While some Blacks attain top jobs, virtually all of the lowpaid ones, cleaning floors to cashiering at Arby's, are done by Blacks...
...country, tried to take her own life. She was one of eight Cambodians at South Boston who attempted suicide that year. Now a student at Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass., Leakhena can talk openly about the desperation that overcomes many Asian Americans who feel they cannot attain the academic success they expect of themselves. "I go to bed at 1 or 2 and get up early to study. You study so hard and still you don't have enough time to complete all the work. For me, whatever I do, I want to be perfect...
...believe," Marshall went on, "that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia convention." The document required "several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today...
...during Prohibition. Nor is it a typical effort from Brian De Palma, who has often put his awesome technique and his admirable sense of film history to trashy (Dressed to Kill) or trivial (Wise Guys) ends. Instead, it goes to that place that all films aspiring to greatness must attain: the country of myth, where all the figures must be larger and more vivid than life...