Word: dares
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...Girls I've Rejected," for the New York Times, responses to which lit up her inbox. "It pissed off the feminists and the misogynists--I got both sides of the spectrum," she told me. "The misogynists said women already have too many advantages. And the feminists said, How dare you not treat women like men." But what most amazed her was the reaction of young women: by and large, they assumed this is just how things work. "Why aren't they marching in the streets? That's the part that slays me," Delahunty says. "It isn't fair, and young...
...wasn't just in Northern Ireland that there was an end to violence. I was in Palermo on Good Friday and met the city's police chief. It's been 15 years since the Sicilian Mafia has been blowing up judges and prosecutors. Is the violence over? "If I dare say it, it is," the police chief said. "The Mafia figured out it just wasn't worth it, the killing and bombing, drawing the fury of Rome...
...chief issue, states say, is the estimated $4 billion cost of the law over the next 10 years, which comes at a time when state budgets are already stressed to the breaking point. So far, the feds have provided only $380 million in grants to offset those costs. "How dare they not pay for it?" Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell told TIME. "The cost is 12 days of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan...
...break a mold.” Summers particularly emphasized the importance of taking risks, on both the personal and institutional levels. “We will none of us be remembered for the things we didn’t do, for the things we thought were too risky to dare to do,” he said. “In the future, I hope that Harvard will try things that will fail, but that its mistakes will be mistakes of action and not mistakes of inaction.” Summers, the third in a series of speakers hosted...
...premise is based around a recreation of “Soul Train” (it’s a little like OutKast’s video for “Hey Ya”). “Run” features some pretty normal and—dare I say it—wholesome dancing and singing in its first half, complete with colorful 80s attire. If you’re prone to siezures, though, you shouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security. As soon as you see the rapper’s eyes...