Word: cigars
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...Cigar smoking conjures up images of final clubs, Locke-Ober and cognac. In 2001, however, cigar smoking is no longer limited to the Harvard male establishment. Harvard women are smoking cigars not only in defiance of male stereotypes, but also to relax and to celebrate...
...many Harvard women have smoked cigars, although not necessarily on a regular basis. It’s not uncommon for these women to have tried their first cigar while bonding with Dad or other male friends. Harvard women are drawn to cigars for a variety of reasons, including image, relaxation and a desire to break the rules of conventional female behavior. One sophomore government concentrator in Leverett House, whose father smoked cigars, says,“The cigar smell reminds me of home. It’s sweet, and like a fireplace in the winter...
Blurring the boundaries of what was once considered “taboo” for women has its appeal. Diana K. Bowen ’04, who smoked her first cigar with her father on a camping trip in eighth grade, believes that because smoking cigars is a traditionally male activity, “it’s kind of refreshing and liberating to smoke them.” Bowen, who feels very relaxed while smoking cigars, reserves hers for special occasions with her friends—and males are generally not included...
Likewise, Kristin Hennings ’01 always smokes with “the boys”—seven or eight times per year. She started smoking cigars to prove to her male friends that cigar smoking was not a male-exclusive activity and to better understand why her father liked them so much. Particularly during her first two years at Harvard, Hennings smoked cigars frequently, sometimes just for fun and sometimes to celebrate (Hennings recalls the completion of her Chem 27 final exam as one such occasion). “To be perfectly honest, cigars are very...
...that such Israel-bashing lyrics would cause some discomfort for an official whose job at the time involved his country's ultra-sensitive diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. "I was kind of gratified," says Moussa, leaning back in his Cairo office, shirt collar open, puffing on a Cuban cigar. "Why should it bother me? It is a message: we can't accept injustice done to the Palestinians...