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...action. Suppose I wanted to "challenge the sanctity" of one of society's "most sacred of traditions", namely churchsanctioned heterosexual marriage, which I suspect has been "exploiting" women since long before Take Back the Night rallies were ever conceived. Following McGuire's example, I would show up at may cousin Lisa's wedding ceremony and when the minister asks that anyone who objects 'speak now or forever hold your peace', I would take up his offer and speak out against the heterosexist, patriarchal, bourgeois nature of the marriage institution. Perhaps I would throw in a few Crucifixion jokes just...
...article in the April 13 issue of the Crimson incorrectly identified Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 as the grand-uncle of gubernatorial candidate Mark Roosevelt '78. Franklin D. Roosevelt is a distant fifth cousin, three times removed, of Mark Roosevelt...
...Diplomacy (Simon & Schuster; 912 pages; $35), a sweeping portrayal of historical forces that begins with Cardinal Richelieu and ends with the challenges facing the world today, Kissinger makes the most forceful case by any American statesman since Theodore Roosevelt for the role of realism and its Prussian-accented cousin realpolitik in international affairs. Just as Kennan's odd admixture of romanticism and realism helped shape American attitudes at the outset of the cold war, Kissinger's emphasis on national interests rather than moral sentiments defines a framework for ^ dealing with the multipolar world now emerging. He has produced...
Casaubon, as Dorothea soon discovers, is a pious monster. He rejects both her love and her offer to help with his work. He is uncontrollably jealous of attentions paid her by his impoverished cousin Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a handsome would-be artist turned political journalist. After Casaubon's death, Dorothea discovers that he has added a humiliating codicil to his will: she will forfeit his estate if she marries Ladislaw -- which, at Middlemarch's end, she does anyway. (In an unconvincing final chapter, which the series summarizes in a voice-over, Eliot assures readers that the marriage...
...hear . . . Luther Campbell's bawdy, silly rap parody of the Roy Orbison classic, Oh, Pretty Woman: "Big hairy woman, you need to shave that stuff/ Big hairy woman, you know I bet it's tough/ Big hairy woman, all that hair ain't legit/ 'cause you look like 'Cousin It.' " Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Justice David Souter's foot begins...