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...show’s final episode aired last month. And even though the divided community may no longer come together to watch The L Word, the group is intertwined through personal connections—friendships, hook-ups, and ex-girlfriends, for better or for worse...
Shawna L. Sinnott ’10, a Marine ROTC midshipman, said she believed the results showed that the current generation is better able to distinguish individual ROTC members from the political issue of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—the controversial policy that bars openly gay individuals from serving in the armed forces...
...Could we do better? We're partial to Honda products, so I clicked on the 2009 Odyssey. The new model averages 20 mpg, two more than our clunker. And that is enough of an improvement under the Dingell plan to earn us $3,500. Upgrading would also cut pollution, shave half a ton from our carbon footprint and reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil by a full barrel...
...abstinence, Bristol has been right all along. She was right back in February when she said it was "not realistic," she is right now when she says practicing it is hard, and she's right that it is much better and safer for kids to postpone having sex. She also advocates that kids who have sex should use contraception. This has always been the embedded irony of the fight over sex education. The increased emphasis on abstinence in the past 15 years has been one factor in pushing back the age at which kids have their first sexual encounters, reducing...
...Dijon mustard, as if this was now going to make all those crazy tens of millions of Americans who like him suddenly realize that he's a contemptibly effete snob - why, he's practically French, he might as well be John Kerry! - and really, we were all so much better off with his criminally ignorant predecessor...