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Before coming here, Kessler attended boarding school in Connecticut. As at Harvard, many of the school’s buildings were old and not handicapped-accessible. “I guess I’m kind of used to the bare minimum,” Kessler says. “But that doesn’t mean it’s not annoying and not frustrating.” Kessler’s biggest frustration has been difficulty in accessing sports facilities and friends’ rooms. She found a way to participate in crew this year, but she can?...
Twenty-nine-year-old Makasan Halee sits cross-legged on the bare concrete floor of his family home and vows vengeance against his father's killers. "I am so angry now that I will kill to defend my family and my faith," says Makasan. "I want revenge." Crowded around him in the front room of his modest house last Thursday are a couple of dozen grieving, enraged relatives and friends. Along with several hundred other impoverished rubber tappers, Makasan lives in Som, a dusty village situated in Pattani province in Thailand's deep south. The villagers are mourning the loss...
...about their own bodies. New research shows that the muscle-bound hunks in TV and print ads can affect guys too. Psychologists at the University of Central Florida studied 158 male college students, average age 21, and found that those who were shown TV commercials featuring fit, muscular, sometimes bare-chested men were more depressed and had more body dissatisfaction than students who watched neutral ads. In fact, the latter group reported a decrease in depression after seeing the non-appearance-related ads. Who says men aren't sensitive...
...portrait resembles the work of Michelangelo? She looks blank and shrugs. "I dunno," she replies, and her eyes drift back to the screen. Days after David was launched upon an eager public, a portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh by Stuart Pearson Wright was also unveiled, showing Prince Philip bare-chested and old, with a bluebottle fly on one shoulder. He drew no blushing teens, no comparisons to courtiers or Michelangelo. The king is dead, we say. Long live the king...
...designers gave a nod to pimp fashion, an archetype of blaxploitation, in a sequence with bare-chested men reveling in the adulation of mini-skirted vixens. The segment’s tone was slightly marred by the off-putting notion that a production conscientiously pushing for racial diversity did little to challenge the film industry’s manipulative portrayal of African-Americans in the 1960s...