Word: enterances
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Haines was also gay, and he set a trend in Hollywood by living openly with his lover, Jimmie Shields. When the political waters changed around the early 1930s, Haines refused to play the studio "game"--to repudiate Jimmie, to enter into a sham marriage as so many other actors did, to pretend to be what he wasn't. And it is this that precipitated his early exit from the movies, around 1934. Now the biographer and journalist William J. Mann, fascinated by Haines's colorful rise and fall in the film world and his unique refusal to cave...
...putting yourself in the shoes of a minority student just starting out at Harvard, with limited knowledge of the student organizations. Imagine wearing a bright-orange sign that says "I'm different," while entering the well-enforced glass doors of the Kennedy School's Littauer building, ascending the crimson-colored stairs and walking through two heavy, metal doors. As you enter the offices of this organization full of prospective senators, governors, ambassadors and even presidents, you are greeted with handshakes, smiles and talk of people you may have never even heard of in your life. As if the situation were...
First-years who enter as humanities concentrators in pursuit of a medical degree often decide not to follow through with their pre-med aspirations...
...first class to enter a fully-randomized House system next year, none of us have any memory of "what it used to be like." Since there was nothing to judge it by. we have accepted randomization as neither good nor bad, but rather as the way things worked. Upperclass students tell us stories from the days that houses were different--they tell us that Currier was for parties and that Adams was for weirdos. And though we listen, skeptical of their ability to characterize an entire House with a single adjective, none of us really cares. Whether...
...force that accuses it of bilking the elderly, American Family Publishers (partly owned by a subsidiary of Time-Warner Inc., parent company of TIME Daily) has agreed to stop telling consumers they are "winners" unless they really are -- and to make it clearer that no purchase is needed to enter the sweepstakes...