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...women and Trinidad, where he grew up. The abstemious Brahmin vegetarian who looked away from the movie screen whenever a kissing scene was shown, even after his marriage, is here revealed as a writer of wildly sensual letters whose mistress of 24 years called him "the Lion King" and drew sketches of his manhood in all its naked glory. That did not stop him from seeing her through three abortions and being, in his alarming words, "very violent with her for two days with my hand," but it does bring home how women could see something redeeming and inchoate beneath...
Northeastern isn’t building a new dorm after all. MIT is slashing 10 to 15 percent of its spending. At Harvard, President Drew G. Faust wrote a letter.Her gist was simple: Harvard is not immune. Thanks to economic reality, colleges across the country have had to make painful financial decisions, and the world’s richest university has a proportional amount to lose. Yesterday, the administration announced a 22-percent decline in Harvard’s $36.9 billion endowment over the last four months—the sharpest drop in history. Worse yet, Faust predicted continued gloom...
...finally I realized: what drew so many people out to see Obama was his ability to relate. For me, it was his nonchalant pound he gave my brother (I give fist-pounds to my brother!), and his difficulty balancing loyalty to the church while distancing himself from a controversial minister (the old minister of my hometown church was controversial...
...language works in our everyday lives. “Humans are very, very touchy with their social relationships. When boundaries are breached there’s an emotional cost,” Pinker said. Popular culture and television proved to be fertile ground for examples, as Pinker drew upon scenarios from the romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally,” as well as a number of instances of impromptu profanity by celebrities. “Using taboo words forces the listener to trigger negative thoughts,” he said. Pinker pointed out that semantic distinctions...
...Drew G. Faust is the President of Harvard University, Michael D. Smith is the Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Evelynn M. Hammonds is Dean of Harvard College...