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...deal with it, a la putting condoms in high school bathrooms instead of preaching abstinence. In this regard, Harvard should do everything its power to turn sexual intercourse into frivolous fun. We should turn our dorms into the sexual playpens of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where students can engage in hetero- and homoerotic activity to release tension before they are drugged off to sleep to get ready for the tough day of work ahead...
...equally gloomy: "Everywhere I turn I see no way to go." Senate Republicans were still smarting from what they regard as an act of betrayal by the White House. They had voted in May to eliminate the cost of living adjustment on Social Security for one year, a politically brave move, while the House had refused to make any cuts in old-age pensions. To the outrage of Senate Republicans, the White House two weeks ago sided with the House. Furious, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole accused the White House of "surrendering to the deficit...
...There’s no sense that we have before us a brave new proposal,” says Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who is also a member of the Faculty Council...
...When the Taliban seized power, one of their first edicts was to ban music. They ransacked the Afghan Radio and Television station, decorating nearby trees and rosebushes with streamers of ripped-out audiotape. (Brave technicians, however, sealed thousands of Afghan records and tapes behind a false wall at the studio, which the Taliban never found.) "We were afraid that the Taliban would kill us," recalls Mirwais' older brother Nur-ul-Haq, a tabla player who says dozens of artists were beaten in public by Taliban zealots. So the family buried their musical instruments under a chicken coop in the garden...
...knew I wasn’t brave enough to just live in a garret,” Willig explains...