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...Since a significant number of the people who attend Shabbat meals believe that [these practices run] counter to Jewish law, and therefore having women lead or turning the soda machines on would exclude them, we do not allow these practices at the current time," he says...
Most importantly, creating a HTZ would legitimize our existing counter-reality. We speak our own language of concentrations and proctors and Houses, wear black-tie attire whenever possible, grow dependent on the administration for food thanks to an expensive comprehensive meal plan and are obsessed, for better or worse, with all things Harvard. My mother has affectionately dubbed my experience here as a trip to 'fantasyland'--I get the "you know that's not how things work in the real world, don't you?" speech on a regular basis. Why not embrace our idiosyncrasies and make it official...
...stake for CANF is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall--and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy. Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Last fall, CANF leaders were desperate to counter Castro's planned visit to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, and were saved when Elian washed up as their poster boy. Millionaire chairman Jorge Mas denies the lobby is using Elian: "Our mission is to ensure that this boy gets his due process of law." But he adds...
...rethinking Details, Golin and Conde Nast fatally tried to imitate Maxim without imitating Maxim. Golin, along with a crew imported from his former magazine, went counter to his sleaze-master typecasting, adding un-Maxim-like service articles on money and career. To stave off the lad mags, he also sexed up covers with screaming tag lines--NUDE YEAR'S EVE--and skin. "Yes, we had women on our cover," he says. "But for the most part, they weren't leaning forward; we weren't picking them for their breast size." (Such is the definition of classiness in guy culture today...
Windsor, Ont., just across the Canadian border from Detroit, has always been a refuge for Americans whose proclivities run counter to the prevailing laws of the U.S. In the mid-1800s, runaway slaves made their way to freedom there via the Underground Railroad. During Prohibition, Al Capone's boys smuggled rum from Windsor. And rebels are still attracted to Windsor. These days, though, they come not for liberty or libations but to buy toilets...