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Women for Dignity and Self-Reliance is certainly not the first charitable organization to benefit from a revealing calendar. In recent years, organizations ranging from Cincinnati’s Civic Garden Center to the Maple Corner, Vt. community center have sold calendars featuring nude volunteers discreetly shielded by shrubbery or bales of hay. Trumbull first-years’ failure to follow suit by performing a full monty (or, as the gentlemen of Maple Corner render it, a full Vermonty) can only be seen as further evidence of Yale students’ sexual repression...
...Looking at it from an aerial map, obviously this is a corner piece that Harvard would like to have,” says Paul Berkeley, president of the Allston Civic Association...
However laden with multiple meanings, the high-profile selection process has sharpened public perception of the larger role architecture can play within the public realm at an important civic moment. Many architects, however, are concerned about the unintended consequences of this intensive media coverage. If architects are seen merely as a new kind of celebrity, architecture will be just another temporary form of public entertainment. The spectacle will continue while financial interest starts to cast a cynical shadow...
...Think about your passions," says Marc Freedman, president of Civic Ventures, a San Francisco educational nonprofit that helps older Americans make fuller use of their talents. "Now is the time to go back to earlier dreams and try to make them reality...
...Omen Civic leaders in Selangor, Malaysia, are urging wives who suspect their husbands of seeing prostitutes to present their laundry as potential evidence in the state's anti-prostitution campaign