Word: banes
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...goddess Sita, India's most revered symbol of womanhood, in a wildly popular television serial based on the Hindu epic the Ramayana. Hoping to copy her success, other political parties soon put up their own TV-serial candidates. Sita exerts tremendous power over Indian popular culture: she is the bane of feminists, the impossible ideal held up by disapproving in-laws and yet, for many women, an object of devotion. What political party wouldn't like some of that heady aura in the polling booth...
It’s a passion colleagues like Kennedy School Professor Mary Jo Bane single out as one of Minow’s central qualities...
...know that she is committed to a culture of public service and a culture of advancing justice,” said Bane, who spoke with Minow shortly before she assumed the Deanship. “I remember that she said, ‘What I really care about is justice, and what a law school ought to be about is justice—and I want to bring the Law School together around that...
...easier to prepare quality dishes for three hundred than it is to do the same for 1000 plus. While Dunster and Currier Houses reputedly serve the best cuisine, walking there might be a hassle you’re not willing to endure. And here comes the bane of your existence: upperclass House dining hall restrictions. Adams House—the worst offender—will turn you away at the door, no questions asked, simply for being a freshman (the exception: if you come with an Adams resident...
Chester French pulls it off (though not without a few stumbles) with a gusto that’s sure to recall a Beatles album or two for the historically-minded listener. The eclectic composition of “Love the Future” is both its boon and its bane. It reveals Chester French as more than just mass produced musicians, but occasionally this multifarious bent also leads to painful failures. Such missteps, however, are generally eclipsed by the stronger songs that surround them and the disc’s overall composition, which makes its 13 tracks...