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...students face the annual question of whether or not the time has come to pack away their shorts for good. Should they resign themselves to another season of ankle-length coverage or flout convention by remaining faithful to their summer attire? Of course, shorts-wearers must endure hardships from bitter air biting at their legs to flabbergasted double takes. These individuals must possess extraordinary self-confidence to publicly expose themselves daily. In short, to wear shorts in the winter is to be a true iconoclast, a super hero who rejects all societal notions of behavior, a human being of epic...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Naked Knees | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...married and fathered a son. But no matter how hard I prayed to change my sexual orientation, no matter how much I believed I could be "delivered" from the sin of homosexuality, I finally had to accept the inevitable. I came out of the closet, left behind a bitter and betrayed wife and watched my son, now 18, struggle with his love for me and the hate he feels toward homosexuals. Unfortunately, I left destruction in my wake, but I have never felt better or healthier than I have since I came out. JAMES S. FITZGERALD Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...heading off potential opposition. Bad blood has been shed over the Fogg and the Sackler before, as Cuno acknowledged when he referred to the University's original proposal to link the Fogg and the Sackler with a bridge over Broadway at the time the Sackler was built. Because of bitter community opposition that plan was never completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Knafel Center: A Good Neighbor Policy | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...young child I tasted the bitter fruit of segregation. I felt the sting of discrimination," he said...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rep. Lewis Recounts Civil Rights Movement | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson beat all the teams it needed to beat, but lost to all four of its ranked opponents--each time ending the game with the feeling that it did not quite leave it all out on the field. That unfulfilled potential, in addition to a bitter loss to Dartmouth that cost the seniors their fourth straight Ivy League title, has Harvard gunning for revenge...

Author: By Haley Steele, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Not Looking Past Central Conn. St. | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

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