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Always wanted to strut across campus with a “Physics” book? Now’s the chance. Don’t let an attractive outward appearance (or any notions of intrinsic difference) deter you from picking up this novel...
...been an unusually unlucky season. But the fact remains that all these incidents occurred within the Harvard varsity football team, and in a span of five months. There is a real problem here beyond simple coincidence, and it is fair to ask whether the punishments are strong enough to deter future infractions. Coach Murphy has responded to all six incidents with either suspensions or dismissals, yet the team’s ongoing woes suggest that these deterrents aren’t effective enough. Another question these incidents raise is that of team culture. After Toci’s speech...
...their partner only. Simply put, the definition of family is increasingly flexible, its constituent parts ever more diverse. While the family was once seen as a form of fate - it chose you - it's now increasingly something that Europeans choose and define by and for themselves. Censure won't deter women of dustier vintages from trying for babies, any more than disapproval stops couples, gay or straight, from cohabiting without the sanction of church, officialdom or parents. In this revolutionary age, Time peeks behind a few more doors to discover how Europeans are living now - and to predict how notions...
...Spanish Civil War forced him to decamp to Paris. It was there that he showed some of fashion's most influential silhouettes, including the cocoon coat, the chemise and the baby-doll dress. His presentations were held a full month after other Paris houses', but that didn't deter devoted clients like Wallis Simpson, Princess Grace and Babe Paley. They were devastated when Balenciaga closed his house in 1968. But the legacy of his architectural silhouettes lived on in the work of several former assistants, including Emanuel Ungaro, Pierre Cardin and Hubert de Givenchy. This season Nicolas Ghesqui?...
...odds. He'd grown up blind in a remote village in a country where people with disabilities aren't allowed to attend college. That meant three strikes against his ever amounting to much: China may be brimming with opportunity, but not for handicapped, uneducated peasants. The odds didn't deter Chen. He educated himself in the law by having relatives read to him, and then used his expertise to help others like him. He became a "barefoot lawyer," offering counsel to peasants with disabilities despite his lack of conventional credentials. His work won him admiration in his hometown, support from...