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...When I asked Eric afterwards about the religious background that enabled him to engage in a fairly articulate debate about the merits of Repent America’s assertions, he explained that he grew up wanting to be a Catholic priest but began studying other religions, from paganism and masonry to the “sex mysteries of Isis and alchemies of Horus.” “What is your religion now?” I asked, tentatively. “I’m a Thelemite,” Eric said. Of course he was. Apparently, there...
...middle of very sporadic and unclear movements and diction. At one moment, Dr. Nikki Nom was sitting down patiently to begin the next poem; in the next, she had twisted herself on the chair, hugging it for dear life; in yet another, she twirled on stage to a background of classical music before running from one side of the stage to the other. The eccentric definitely outweighed the conventional in “Namely, Muscles,” for better or worse. Porter took the figurative to be the literal as she interpreted her own words through the actions they...
...Harvard man is guided by a parochial set of “values,” “ethics,” and “manners,” which he inanely believes ought to apply to everyone, regardless of background. At Harvard, he was indoctrinated into believing himself a member of some contrived “community of learned men,” and that his education was intended to give him something more than a lucrative career. He claims that there is more to living in a civil society than being an unfettered individual...
...This might seem obvious, but for some reason there is not enough of it on campus. I feel deeply that the world has to start engaging the public in research—my own agenda is to bring in the visual, which is a common language that goes beyond background and education. Frankel sports a long list of grants and fellowships from groups such as the National Science Foundation and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Upon seeing her work, this variety is understandable: She captures science in such an aesthetically moving way that it is difficult, if even possible, to distinguish...
...upon us in the world of sports. With new drug busts every month from Belgium to China to Baltimore, large investigations finally coming to a head, and new names leaking out seemingly every week, there are certainly some very sweaty brows forming on some very nervous athletes. The annoying background noise that was performance enhancement drug (PED) use in sports has now become a deafening roar...