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...that old to make those kinds of advances towards me, and I had no experience with men and no experience with dating other than a few little child's play situations which were a joke. I didn't really understand the concept of rape, but I did understand the concept that a man had the right to father children with the woman once he had married her. Your salvation, basically, depends on whether your husband wants you in his life...
...proposal without articulating the priorities of the community. “The current plan for community benefits as I understand it is Harvard’s proposal,” said Task Force member Brent Whelan. “They’re presenting things without a clear concept of where the community wants to go and how they want to go about it.” The University has already committed itself to providing residents with free math and science tutoring, beginning this spring. Additionally, Harvard has already begun making physical improvements to the area, including repairing sidewalks along...
...Tannery was founded in the early 1970s and has since expanded to two stores in Harvard Square and one in Boston. “The expansion has been highly successful for the Tannery because it allowed us to include more higher-end clothing in addition to our original concept of casual outdoor comfort,” Tannery co-owner Tarek Hassan said...
...spent much of the summer thinking about the costumes, characterizations, the design concept, and overall presentation goals for the play. That way, after casting calls were held earlier this fall, we could hit the ground running...
Rorty locates the original sin of western philosophy in Plato’s concept of mimesis, the idea that our experience of the world is a more or less opaque manifestation of the real world—which can conveniently only be accessed by philosophers. Rorty lauds the German Idealists and the Romantic poets for their rejection of external reality, but, in their fetishization and spiritualization of the Self, he sees mere Platonic claptrap. In Rorty’s view, humans and the world have no fixed essence or meaning. Instead, they are in perpetual flux, constantly dissolved and recreated...