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...Fifi knows she's sophisticated, not like back when she was 17 and had never had sex before. Now, she's been with around 30 men - it's so hard to keep exact count - and she knows a lot. She knows that men like women with long hair. She knows the best bars to meet guys, especially the worldly, older men who teach her about life. She knows that some don't want to use condoms, but none of her friends has ever known anyone who has had AIDS, so that...
...hasn't kept exact count, but Fai has slept with more than 20 women since he lost his virginity at 16. His flatmates never know who is going to walk out of his bedroom on a Sunday morning. He says he always uses a condom when he has sex - to avoid getting the girl pregnant, not as a precaution against AIDS. "Healthy people don't have to worry about that," he says, breezily...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson was in the exact same position as five students will be tonight--vying for the honor of a Boylston Prize in Elocution...
...exact details of how Harvard's initiative, as well as the larger Boston partnership, will be determined through discussions between partners and the community over the next several months after tomorrow's announcement...
...gleams on the surface in Furst's books is his vivid, precise evocation of mood, time, place, a letter-perfect re-creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station. He puts us on the exact street where the Daisy Bar sat in Montmartre, gives us the heavy smell of an eau de toilette called Zouave. His stories rumble along in the dreary trains that seemed to be forever crisscrossing Europe...