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...will be there, and you don’t want to be that guy sitting in the corner by himself holding a beer in one hand and playing “Snake” on his cell phone in the other. Along those lines, make sure you know the correct date of the party. I can tell you from experience that it is horribly awkward to show up to a club where you think there is a toga party, only to find yourself attending a Bar Mitzvah. And you didn’t even bring a gift...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: This is Awkward | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

Once you show up to the correct party, you immediately have to deal with possibly the most uncomfortable experiences of the night: greetings and introductions. Perhaps the most difficult decision a person ever has to make is what type of greeting...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: This is Awkward | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...think we were right about everything except the drugs. We were right about civil rights; we were right about human rights; we were right about peace being better than war. Most of the causes we espoused then were correct. But I think we didn't know our butt from a hole in the ground about drugs, and that bit us pretty hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Survivor | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

Having received the correct diagnosis and treatment, Binckley is now robust, content and at ease. Her headaches and fainting spells are long gone. Her weight, once a wispy 100 lbs. on a 5-ft. 4-in. frame, ranges from 125 lbs. to 135 lbs. The biggest change, however, is that she's free of the tormenting worry about her body and what she eats. "Overall, I am happier and enjoying life like never before," she says. "To use food as a metaphor, life is delicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thin Gray Line | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

Ashton R. Lattimore is certainly correct that gender and sexuality are distinct categories and ought not to be conflated in academic analysis. Nor is she the first to argue for such a methodological separation. However, her claims that gender and sexuality have little to do with each other are misinformed. Can we really say, for example, that women’s suffrage has “little, if anything” to do with sexuality when arguments both for and against women’s suffrage implicated Victorian images of “womanly virtue,” derived from...

Author: By Betty C. Luther | Title: Gender and Sexuality Inextricably Linked | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

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