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...public life, I am a strong, can-do woman. How is it, then, that behind the closed doors of my most intimate relations, I could voluntarily betray myself? The answer is this: if a woman has become disembodied due to lack of self-worth--I'm not good enough--or abuse, she will neglect her own voice of desire and only hear the man's. This requires compartmentalizing--disconnecting head and heart, body and soul. Overlay her silence with a man's sense of entitlement and inability (or unwillingness) to read his partner's subtle body signals, and you have...
...does the greater academic cachet betray the community college's original mission to provide a refuge for remedial undergrads and midlife career switchers? The honors college at Miami Dade uses less than $1 million of the school's $643 million budget. But its approximately 400 students, who all get scholarships, enjoy an enviable student-professor ratio of less than 15 to 1, compared with about 25 to 1 for regular students. And while more than 80% of Miami Dade's honors students are black or Latino, students in similar programs at other community colleges have been predominantly white females...
Before facing the firing squad of faculty at 4 p.m. yesterday, Summers did not betray any unease that may have been brewing...
...response to what will probably go down as some of the worst teenage film acting of this year. Let’s just say that Bobby’s pals - sounding more like Van Halen than Hanson - should stay put playing in the garage (lest their man-boy voices betray their steroid use). Joe Mantegna, having grown tired of the caustic straight talk from his David Mamet days, instead opts for the sappy rubbish of what is effectively Joan of Arcadia Redux...
...never thank Mr. Nader enough for all he has done for this country. No one’s public service record can even come close. I would never desert him and I would never betray him with a wrongly cast vote...