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...world’s premier post-colonial literary theorist, Bhabha loves to entertain guests and ideas. He makes a mean shrimp with mint coriander and mango and duck with wild mushrooms for his soirees. And, he notes, “Harvard has a lot of great people to entertain...
They say that you can’t please all people all the time. But after $1,300 spent on everything—including a rubber duck-shaped underwater vibrator and vagina cupcakes courtesy of erotic bakery Sweet & Nasty—one would hope that you could please nearly everyone. Thursday’s Female Orgasm Seminar hosted by Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) received rave reviews from many attendees. Unfortunately, some members of RUS who planned the event were slightly disappointed with speaker Kim Airs. Although her off-color hijinks titillated audience members, some were offended by her heteronormative...
...says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here, we say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Well, there's a Chinese proverb that says the loudest duck gets shot.") At the boot camp, Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped her land a tough assignment as chief operating officer for equipment services in China...
...another city when--or if--the Hornets started their preseason training camp. Reports of violence and looting had spread to Westwego; the team's tech guy carried a shotgun for protection. The military had taken over the facility, so to grab the supplies, Spero's crew had to duck under the few hundred rifles stored in the player's lounge. Pistols were strewn on the Ping-Pong table the players had used to pass time. Fortunately, the guns weren't loaded. How did the men know? Says Spero: "There were boxes of ammo in the weight room...
...information wasn’t the only thing students left the seminar with. Event staff members handed out hundreds of free condoms, dental dams, and packets of lubrication. At the end of the night, Airs gave out prizes, including vibrators, books of erotica, and a rubber duck. Students bombarded Airs with questions throughout the presentation, touching on topics ranging from how to achieve multiple orgasms to why she didn’t teach a seminar on the male orgasm. “It would take about five minutes,” Airs responded, garnering much applause. Airs also mixed tips...