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...young refugee stands blindfolded in the middle of a bare stage. She shakes as a man in camouflage holds a knife to her throat. Audience members cringe as crimson pours down her jeans and t-shirt...
...this unabashed commercialism (plus a great gift for pop hooks) that makes Twain the ruler of the vast collection of ears between Madonna and Garth Brooks. She began her career appealing to a country audience that was first scandalized and then hypnotized by her pop sensibilities--and her conspicuously bare midriff. Then in 1997 Twain recorded Come on Over, a brilliantly calculated mix of pop and country that has sold 19 million copies and is the most popular album by a female singer in American history. Twain and Whitney Houston are the only women to have two albums sell more...
...about the phenomenon of “rolodex-building” at Harvard: the oft-expressed sentiment that we are so concerned with our futures that we lose the raw unpredictability of the present. So often required to distill ourselves into personal statements and choreographed answers, whittled down to bare statistics, we lose our better, less articulate selves...
FLUSHING OUT HISTORY Bare-bottomed squatters beside railway lines are many tourists' first?and sometimes lasting?impression of India. Even Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, revolted upon visiting his ancestral homeland, once raged that "Indians defecate everywhere ... they never look for cover." It is therefore a bit surprising to find in New Delhi the world's only museum dedicated to the history of the toilet. But then this is a small museum with a big mission, as the sign opposite the entrance reading OPEN DEFECATION?SOCIAL CURSE can attest...
...Harvard and even more so when you leave,” says Gabby, who admits to cheating regularly on her post-college boyfriend. “I’m in New York now and I always notice this real sense of expectation. There’s always this bare minimum standard that all of us should be able to land a guy who went to an Ivy League school, will hook up with us, treat us well and take us out to nice clubs. When you’ve made it through Harvard, you sort of feel like...