Word: attractions
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Bois said that he is confident that the department will continue to attract leading art history scholars as they work to maintain and expand their ranks...
...speech and elections. Castro's ire at the growing popularity of Paya seems a key impetus for the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. But Castro has apparently decided that arresting Paya, who last year won the European Union's Sakharov Award for human rights, would attract the kind of attention Castro doesn't want. Paya told TIME last week he fears he could still be imprisoned: "I'm waiting for the knock on the door any moment now." --By Tim Padgett
...home. To attract upscale, first-time buyers, RV makers are offering new levels of luxury and size (think of a 225-sq.-ft. hotel suite with a kitchen and a surround-sound theater). "The average RV owner isn't Joe Six-Pack anymore. It's Joe Chardonnay," says Mike Duncan, investor-relations chief for high-end-RV maker Monaco Coach. The industry has also been winning over the sporty set with vehicles that include not only living quarters but also loading ramps and cargo space for Jet Skis, kayaks, ATVs and dune buggies. As for gas mileage, some new motor...
...exciting that Summers has picked a woman to take the helm at one of the University’s major schools. We hope that the new leadership at HLS will attract more women and minority faculty and help the law school in its efforts to remain one of the finest and most cutting-edge legal institutions in the world...
...dutifully call to your attention the ubiquity with which the word “sexual” is linked to “difference.” The reasons for this seem intuitive, and in your gay innocence, you may even quote to me the old saw that opposites attract. But differences of any kind rarely (some say never) come without differences in power. Mapped onto genital differences are wage differentials and strength gradients. The sexy dialectic of master and slave is played out every day between lovers and friends, defining our relationships as much as it disturbs them...