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Since then I have slowly discovered gay political identities, cultures and intellectual communities. Now, four years later, I find myself welcoming 200 scholars, activists and artists to "Pleasure/Politics" the 4th Annual Lesbian Bisexual and Gay Studies Conference held October 26-28 in the Harvard Science Center.
Administrators have said that the new distribution requirements will help history concentrators to compare Western and non-Western cultures.
Burton's script is most adept when it describes the mutual ignorance which characterizes relations between the two cultures. While Anne denigrates Japanese popular music by saying "I guess we [Americans] like to understand the words," the Japanese hostesses insist on calling her Mary because they think it is a...
And though there's something to be said about learning about other cultures--on what days students at foreign colleges get served chickwiches, and so forth--being away from the good `ol U.S. of A. for any period of time longer than two weeks gets very tiresome very quickly.
In what we like to think of as "primitive" warrior cultures, the passage to manhood requires the blooding of a spear, the taking of a scalp or head. Among the Masai of eastern Africa, the North American Plains Indians and dozens of other pretechnological peoples, a man could not marry...