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Since the 1980s, social norms programs have been growing increasingly popular among colleges, high schools, and intercollegiate athletics. Perkins is one of the self-proclaimed “original researchers” of social norms. In both 1999 and 2005, his program was chosen by the U.S. Department of Education as a “Model Program in Higher Education...
...your food and then line up to pay at the cashier’s desk. Go to the Greenhouse. You get food; and then you pay. Go to Adams House. Pay; get food. The two actions are always separate. But Fly-By, like the aforementioned meat lasagna, has chosen to mush two good things together into a semi-unrecognizable mass of epic yuckiness...
...taking on Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, with his company's vast array of media properties, including CNN, HBO, America Online, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, and a current market value of $85 billion, Icahn has chosen his biggest mark yet. Time Warner has been struggling since the disastrous merger in 2000 with AOL, which sent the company's share price plummeting. An Icahn-led group picked up 2.6% of the company, and "a boatload of hedge funds and other short-term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises...
...Chicago, I had a crush on a girl named Betty Conklin. I learned to jitterbug with her. When she invited another boy to a hayride instead of me, I reinvented myself for the first time. I started referring to myself as Hef instead of Hugh. Instead of wearing clothes chosen by my parents, I started wearing yellow cords, saddle shoes and red-flannel shirts that I didn't tuck in. I became more outgoing and created an ideal high school life for myself: I was head of the student council; I wrote plays and performed in them; I drew comic...
Still, Thompson never accepted a gay identity--"Heterosexuality is God's design," he says--and today he is a leading spokesman for young Christians rejecting homosexuality. Thompson says a new kind of bigotry has emerged--among gays. "Those of us who have chosen not to embrace this orientation are often misunderstood and sometimes even ridiculed," he writes in a pamphlet he distributes at campus speaking engagements. Thompson, who has written a book with the near parodic title Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would, hasn't been completely successful in rejecting his gay desires. He admits he still notices handsome...