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Over cookies and chocolate ice cream in the Women’s Center last night, a group of about a dozen undergraduates—all of whom agreed that mainstream pornography objectifies women—tossed around ideas aimed at distinguishing the controversial publication from other pornography magazines...
...living in one of the happiest places on earth make me happy? Having lived in a dozen cities and some 30 flats in the past 10 years, I'd spent more than a little time wondering about the connection between place and peace, and whether I'd be happier in the next place. I can't remember what my answer was that day with Weiner in Reykjavík, but, like a typical American, I recall vividly not wanting to come off as unhappy. If he asked me the same question today, I probably still wouldn't be able...
...experienced hands gave the same advice: 'You gotta get down, get dirty, get tough,'" said one, who echoed them too. But Obama pushed back, more willing to fight his advisers than to fight his opponents. A heated showdown in Chicago, attended by a core group of only half a dozen or so, took place over Labor Day weekend. "But he wouldn't do it," says one of the attendees. "Against all punditry, against the advice, against the history ... It shows he understood his persona and the qualities that were implicit in it." And he understood what he stood to lose...
...providing micro-credit loans to farmers, and delivering drinking water and latrines to the rural poor. Today, many live simple lives eating rice and beans for breakfast, speaking a Spanish that drops the s at the end of words, a signature of a Nicaraguan accent. A group of several dozen of them gather each week to discuss social justice issues at the Casa Ben Linder, the Managua meeting house named after the only U.S. citizen killed by contras in the 1980s...
...mother, after observing me waste away hours every day watching cycles—“Top Model” has cycles, not seasons (and with a dozen girls trapped in a house together for months, the menstruation jokes write themselves)—asked me how I could possibly find entertainment in reality TV I’d already seen...