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Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez Patino never doubted her femininity until she arrived in Kobe, Japan, in 1985 to compete at the World University Games. Like all female athletes participating in international tournaments, she had to take a genetic sex-determination test, aimed at preventing men in drag from unfairly competing against women. Though Patino had passed such an exam in the past, she had forgotten to bring along proof. This time, to her amazement, she failed. The first test had evidently been botched. Patino, though clearly a female anatomically, is, at a genetic level, just as clearly...
WHAT'S SO FUNNY about guys in drag? How does the Pudding get away with the same formula--silly pastiche plus falsies--year after year...
...answer the first of these annual questions, nothing. (Exception: Gov. William F. Weld '66 in drag is funny in and of itself. He played the female lead in 1966.) To answer the second, it doesn't. You need more than an all-male kickline and a torch song to keep an audience entertained for two hours. Tradition doesn't cut it alone. This is what cuts...
ADAMSIANS MIGHT LIKE to claim that eating in their house is a privilege. So why should I get to eat in whatever house I please? Because I live in the Quad, dammit. Everyone in Adams House owes me something. Every time I drag my body through the Common--risking frostbite, muggings and yucky mud--I am saving some too comfortable student from Adams House the inconvenience of living far away from campus...
...billion a year, international telecommunications ranks as the fourth biggest drag on the U.S. trade deficit. With a simple idea and 15 employees in the Bronx, Jonas just might make more of a dent in that deficit than a pride of automakers on a presidential trade mission...