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...either alone or in tandem with a significant other, Facebook faithfully announces this romantic classification to hundreds of “friends,” many of whom are brief acquaintances or, at worst, complete strangers.With its unapologetic eschewal of nuance, Facebook pressures us to define our relationships and display the results for all to see. Yet relationships, like people, do not fit neatly into predefined categories. The premium that Facebook places on categorization has only exacerbated our societal obsession with affixing arbitrary labels to relationships and calculating our self-worth accordingly. For many women, “boyfriends?...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Relationship Status on Facebook: | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Bush - dug up Geronimo's grave in 1918 with the help of several other "Bonesmen," as members of the society are known, and stole the warrior's skull, two bones and some riding gear from his grave at Fort Sill, Okla. The society allegedly put the remains on display at the "The Tomb," an imposing, windowless crypt in New Haven, Conn. that has served as the group's headquarters since its founding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skull & Bones Society | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would snuggle into Dean's shoulder; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy - a bizarre comic display of love and resentment. No way it could last. In 1956, 10 years to the day after they had first paid, Martin and Lewis split, In a decade of famous divorces, this was the most seismic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Lewis Wins an Oscar at Last | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...wanted to give a sense of the range of approaches that students in the VES Department take to art,” says Virginia Anderson, assistant curator of American art at the Harvard Art Museum and curator of the Mass Hall exhibit. “We hoped to display their work in a very public place.”At the hallway entrance, two strategically positioned mirrors refract light from a bent-wire sculpture glistening with museum wax, a substance that drips so slowly that changes to the work are barely noticeable until the next day. This installation gives...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Art Placed at Forefront in Mass Hall | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...chatterings of hurried students rushing to class at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS South), the mystical images on the walls of the bottom floor remain placid and vibrant. “Sufism: Mystical Ecumenism,” the exhibition of photographs by Iason Athanasiadis currently on display at CGIS South, includes pieces from Iran, Pakistan, Syria and Turkey. “The exhibit is a visual journey through Bilad ash-Sham, Khorassan, and the Punjab,” says the Harvard Gazette, “chronicling the movement and rhythm of zikr, the ecstatic ceremony practiced...

Author: By Olivia S. Pei, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Sufism' Focuses on Spirit, Rejects Stereotype | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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