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...Just think of the headline: 'Gay tutor forced to resign because of Harvard homophobia,'" Tan says. "The BGLTSA would have been right there to say 'Gay students at Harvard think et cetera, et cetera...
...have no quarrel with people who avoid eating particular or all meats because of religious or moral reasons--vegetarians, Buddhists, et al. For that matter, I'm willing to concede that taste is subjective enough that people may just not like the taste of organ meat. My issue is with those people who pull faces at eating certain parts out of some false notion of intrinsic 'uncleanliness,' and, worse than that, to consider the very act of eating offal beyond their ken, beyond their realm of comprehension. I call this the 'how could you eat those parts?' school of thought...
...Generals Gau, Tso, Tzou, et alia...
...Such is retail in modern America: first B. Altman, then Gimbels and now the legendary Bonwit's. Despite a slight uptick in business caused by the current economic boom, the one-stop-shop department store has seen its business stolen by two phenomenons: the discount store (Wal-Mart, et al.) and "category killers" (Bed Bath and Beyond, Home Depot). "Bonwit's has the same story of many of the great old department stores," says TIME business editor Bill Saporito. "Once the original family sold it, it fell into financial mismanagement. But at the same time there's just no market...
...ballooning out of control. "We talk incessantly about weight loss," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "But obesity levels are going through the roof. We cling to the idea that there is a quick fix." Of course, there isn't, which is why most health experts view Atkins et al. with a healthy dose of skepticism. These diets are extreme, and almost no one is capable of sticking with a no-fat diet, or an all-protein diet or a diet with no sugar. And most likely, says Dr. Smith, that safety valve of human nature is a good...