Word: dykes
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...Hulu (the name is derived from the Mandarin word for gourd) streams current episodes of dozens of network TV series, including hits like House, The Simpsons and Late Night With Conan O'Brien. It also has episodes from 250 classic series, such as Miami Vice and The Dick Van Dyke Show, and 100 full-length feature films including The Big Lebowski and Some Like It Hot. (Hulu currently offers shows from NBC and Fox; WB shows will be added in the next few months.) You'll also find thousands of short clips and outtakes from various shows, movies and professional...
...ruinous policies that have turned Zimbabwe into one of the poorest and most repressive countries in the world. Foreign journalists are routinely refused permission to travel to Zimbabwe, so I entered the country as a tourist and drove south from Bulawayo to the goldfields of the Great Dyke. I was following tens of thousands of Zimbabweans who, as the economy collapsed, headed to the gold-mining region of Matabeleland, hoping the red hills might give up something to live on. My goal was to get a firsthand look at the misery facing ordinary people in Zimbabwe today...
...Dyke Ball, 11 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. The media used these hospitalizations as an excuse to publish scores of eroticized, disapproving reports of Wellesley life. The Boston Herald went so far as to grace its front page with the headline, “Wellesley Girls Gone Wild: college students end night in ER after lesbian bash.” By contrast, only pitiable coverage was provided by local media when, months earlier, more than 25 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning at the Harvard-Yale football game...
...Stone, titled “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl.” This oft-cited article stereotypes undergraduates at Wellesley as nothing short of promiscuous floozies, propositioning themselves to any man who steps foot on campus. The article’s description of the Dyke Ball is snarkily crafted to tap into male carnal lust, best exemplified by the Animal House scene in which John Belushi secretly observes a naked, sorority pillow fight. In the article’s words: “Women arrive nearly topless, or wearing only Saran Wrap or body paint...
...hope that this year I am proven wrong, and the media avoids making such facile, ignorant mischaracterizations when covering Dyke Ball and its pro-choice concert. I am not holding my breath...