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Every Thursday at 9 a.m. during the fall semester last year, Diana I. Williams '95 filed into a tiny, overheated seminar room in William James Hall for her Foreign Cultures 46 section.
And both sides can argue history. Smoking proponents warn that the current antismoking campaign could end up like Prohibition in the 1920s: banning cigarettes would be impossible to enforce and would only increase their outlaw appeal. "I think there's a strict analogy here," says Klein. "Both drugs have been...
As the editors of HQ observed in an earlier issue, explaining the theme of this most recent issue, "The success of queer culture lies in our diverse heritage, born of the mingling of outcasts of all cultures." This statement takes all people who have ever had any thing bad done...
Now more than ever the tiger's mystique is its ticket to the boneyard. If Asian cultures no longer revere the tiger as a god, many still believe that the animal is the source of healing power. Shamans and practitioners of traditional medicine, especially the Chinese, value almost every part...
Demand for tiger bone, however, originates in China, Korea and Taiwan, largely beyond the reach of Western publicity campaigns. Moreover, tiger-bone remedies are so ingrained in these cultures that it is not certain their governments could control the trade in tiger parts. Whether they have the will to try...