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...dean of students is always going aroundtrying to see what is tattered in the fabric ofthe institution and he or she should be there,"says Epps. "And perhaps when it gets fixed, go onto something else...
...truth, sexual identity is a complex weave spun of desire, fantasy, conduct and belief; pulling on any one thread distorts the fabric. Even defining one's own sexual orientation can be difficult. Avowed lesbians sometimes sleep with men, and men who describe themselves as straight engage in sex with other men. In many Latin societies, men do not consider themselves bisexual or gay unless they take the passive-receptive role during sex. Moreover, sexuality is as much a state of mind as an act of body. People may be attracted to someone but unwilling to act on their desires...
...their middle-class retreat has horrified Fisher's neighbors and those of her alleged victim, Mary Jo Buttafuoco. The throng of reporters has turned life near both houses into a kind of theater. At the Fisher home on a quiet dead end and at the Stitch N Sew fabric store owned by Amy's parents a few minutes' drive away, doors are shut, blinds are drawn, the symbolic drawbridge is up, and the castle is meant to seem inviolable. At the Buttafuoco home, the style is defiance. A steady stream of traffic, automotive and human, proclaims this a happy house...
Kevin believes that non-order choice will weaken the fabric of the artistic community considerable. He says that under the new system, he would not have been able to do many things he once did at Adams, where he organized a house reading series called "Night People," and learned to use the Bow and Arrow Press. Before partial randomization, Kevin says, Adams House was "a more vital place. It makes sense that Seamus [Heaney] is in Adams House. It wouldn't make any sense for him to be in Kirkland. And it's no accident that Master Kiely...
...street who shuffles up to shake her hand, her friends, her enemies -- calls her Hanan, a mark of honor and a measure of her prominence) is that the public person is the private person. The 45 years of her life have woven seamlessly into a single fabric. Her long battle as a woman to find an identity and equality is the same as the struggle for Palestinian identity and equality. She sounds the same at home as she does on a podium: there is no difference between the parent talking to her child, the spokeswoman jousting with the press...