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...structure of many of the clubs is such that members are able to exert considerable control over female guests: women are dependent upon male members for admittance (often through side doors), and once women are inside, their movement is regulated--they are confined to the rooms members deem them fit to enter. It is no wonder that such a controlling environment gives club members confidence to make the kinds of overtures that would be seen elsewhere as inappropriate; Epps is right to advise women that the best way to avoid uncomfortable sexually-charged situations at club events is simply...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Final Clubs Poison Social Scene | 6/4/1997 | See Source »

...that the derision is difficult to understand. Education is a setup for ridicule. Old people stuck in place deliver old information to new people about to move up and out. The adamant vs. the supple. The strait-laced vs. the unlaced, over whom they exert a flimsy and temporary authority. Every classroom is an implicit smirk. Write what you feel; I feel that I am going to sit here and accept whatever that tired old bird dishes out, and then I'm going out on the green to toss a Frisbee, flirt, chomp on an Arch Deluxe, live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STUDYING STUDENTS | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...make the jokes in this family," I said. I've always believed that, even when they're grown, it's a good idea to exert parental authority now and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Others said they felt they could exert some control over their destiny...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Where to Next Year? Frosh Find Out | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

This malleability could, in a roundabout way, produce clones who are indeed soul mates. Your clone would, after all, look like you. And certain kinds of faces and physiques lead to certain kinds of experiences that exert certain effects on the mind. Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs--physically robust, psychologically assertive--and ectomorphs--skinny, nervous, shy. But even if these generalizations hold some water, it needn't mean that ectomorphs have genes for shyness. It may just mean that skinny people get pushed around on the junior-high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN SOULS BE XEROXED? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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