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...choose between service to country and self-expression. If it is your misfortune to belong to this marginalized minority, you can forget about a military career unless you hide your true identity in the shadow of the closet. Can we watch unmoved as our compatriots suffer the bitter bite of bias? Can we permit this brazen affront to the Most Holy Ideal of Equality? Nay. We cannot. We must not. Let the military be banned from Harvard forever...
...disease takes three distinct forms. The cutaneous form of anthrax occurs when bacterial spores enter the body through cuts in the skin. The infection begins as a bump that resembles an insect bite but within days expands into an ulcer about an inch in diameter. This form of the disease is easily treated with antibiotics...
Thus rejuvenated, head west for 10 minutes in a taxi for a bite to eat at Le Garcon Chinois (Lane 9 off Hengshan Road). Its Chinese-French menu offers dishes like spicy duck-breast salad. Or head back on Lane 9 toward Yang's Kitchen for traditional Shanghai dishes like braised meatballs and drunken chicken. End your day with a drink at M on the Bund, a sumptuous bar and Mediterranean eatery on the Huangpu River. From the seventh-floor balcony overlooking the splendid stretch of Old World colonial trading houses, you can look across at the gleaming, futuristic towers...
...Such success, of course, begs a question: Are feats of courage, like trips to the crematorium, necessary to nurture champions? Kim still shivers at the memory of a 1994 episode when she and her teammates had to pick up live snakes and bite their bodies (gently). Kim was so frightened that her trainer had to hold the snake while she did the biting. A colleague, initially thinking the snake was rubber, slung it around her neck. She was about to kiss it when it flicked out its tongue. Says Kim: "She completely freaked out." So have some of Korea...
...interview, Megan claims that she receives much attention from upperclass men. They described a typical weekend night as involving getting together with roommates, grabbing a bite to eat at the Berg, and then heading off to the final clubs or room parties. Megan added, “the hottest and funniest guys to chill with are the varsity tennis players and swimmers.” When asked if they felt exploited or objectified, Emily exclaimed that she thought it was not offensive but flattering...