Word: casanovas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hogwarts students, like Harvard students, aren’t spending their time perfecting their Casanova routines, at least they—or a devoted minority, at least—are putting their energies to good use for others. Harry’s friend Hermione gets a workers rights campaign off the ground this year at Hogwarts. Though it won’t be giving away the end of the book to note that Hermione’s student activism is a total failure so far, Harvard agitators know all too well that winning better treatment for workers in the face...
...straightforward as all this is, the day is nearly upon us and I can’t bring myself to make any preparation—not so much as a card. It’s not simply a matter of laziness or apathy: I like playing Casanova, and half the fun is planning a surprise. And it has nothing to do with the injustice Valentine’s Day inflicts upon poor singles, left to commiserate with one another and bleat ceaselessly about their wretched condition. Please, spare me the self-pity...
...face of rampant rumors and even a prime-time grilling from Barbara Walters, RICKY MARTIN has gracefully kept his sexuality a well-guarded secret. But the woman rumored to be Martin's girlfriend is ripping off the closet doors to expose Ricky as the greatest Latin lover since Casanova cruised through the 18th century. Prefacing her remarks with "I'm not supposed to talk about this," Ines Misan told the New York Post that Martin "is all man," graciously noting that "on a scale of 1 to 10, I'll give him a 20." As if that didn't clarify...
...change even one iota. No one wants to see him toiling monastically on his memoirs or with a wrench in his hand, building low-income housing for Habitat for Humanity. We expect and desire him, once he's thrown off the trammels of the presidency, to become the great Casanova (at least the great Bubbanova) of the Western world (at least the West Coast), noshing on marzipan as he steeps with a bevy of hot-tub hootchies in his Malibu compound...
...little more carefully. He said if it "can" be knocked out. It is feasible to engineer systems that are exceedingly difficult to knock out without incurring significant costs. The Love Bug exploits a system that was designed to encourage promiscuous behavior. Windows is a code-running slut, a code Casanova. JOHN KAWAKAMI Los Angeles...