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...thumbing through a pile of magazines recently, and a curious advertisement for No-Nonsense pantyhose caught my eye. In the middle of the full-page ad floated a sharp-looking image of Tina Turner encapsulated in a women's symbol. The print on the bottom of the ad read, "No-Nonsense American Woman of the Month: To Tina Turner, legendary performer and survivor, for proving that when a woman has talent, strength, guts and courage--nothing can beat her!" Why does Tina Turner exemplify the qualities celebrated by the No-Nonsense Women's Political Caucus advertising committee? A few well...
...Most curious of all is that, to this day, neither Green, nor Rudenstine, nor anyone else has said why the Provost decided to return to active scholarship. Indeed, the outgoing Provost's odd silence on the issue marks a sharp--and, we must admit--somewhat suspicious contrast to the Jerry Green we know and like...
...pilot who, in 1986, tried to demonstrate his feel for an Aeroflot passenger jet by attempting to land with the cockpit blinds closed. More than 60 people were killed. But like the skipper, who survived, the tradition lives on. During a recent flight from northern Russia to Moscow, one curious passenger discovered a party in progress at the back of the plane. Vodka and sandwiches were being shared by most of the crew, including the copilot who, less than an hour from landing, had passed out drunk on a mountain of baggage...
Barry, who served six months in prison for drug possession after leaving office as mayor, might seem a curious proponent of piety, but his campaign is no oddity. Pressed by voters, legislators around the U.S. are probing for loopholes in Supreme Court rulings that have forbidden mandated school prayers along with "moments of silence" to foster praying and clergy prayers at school graduations. These efforts come, moreover, at a time when the court is re-examining a cornerstone of its rulings on church and state: the so-called Lemon test, which has forbidden virtually all government involvement with religion...
...rather curious position, as the only Harvard students differentially excluded from interhouse dining. Generally, either a house has interhouse dinning, or it doesn't; it doesn't have interhouse for some people meeting specific criteria and not for others. For those of us on the fourth floor, we are the only students at Harvard who cannot eat at North and Cabot through the month of April. If we have friends in these houses, we cannot eat with them. Moreover, we cannot even eat with our friends from different floors...