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...suites, Yale runs the risk that a handful of couples will take advantage of the change and choose to live together, despite discouragement from college officials. The benefits of mixed-gender suites, however, mitigate that small risk. Additionally, refusing to introduce a gender-neutral policy would have ignored the fact that homosexual couples may already have been living together in single-gender suites. Among many others, one of the key benefits of Yale’s housing policy change is that it helps remove this type of normative judgment on students’ lifestyles and preferences, even if that judgment...
...fact, argues experienced DJ and Harvard graduate student in ethnomusicology Sarah E. Hankins, “The ideal of a good DJ is that you are in a position of service to a crowd, to the taste of the crowd.” Hankins herself puts this idea into practice. “I DJ for the queer community and I never charge for those things because that’s my community,” she said. “[Those are] the people I want to show a good time, bring together, and unite... [I want to] strengthen...
...Jeffrey M. Hartman), Tosca’s lover, is not just painting a Madonna; he is painting a mural of an ostensibly Futurist Madonna. Thus, added to the crime of aiding an escaped political prisoner is the implicit charge of “subversive art” (despite the fact that the Futurists tried so hard to ingratiate themselves with the Fascists...
Classic, in fact, was the watchword of the night. "I just wanted to do a straight-up, classic burger," said former Top Chef contestant Spike Mendelsohn of Washington's Good Stuff Eatery, the defending champion, clad in a boxer's robe and wearing a giant title belt. "We do classic burgers at Bill's," said Brett Reichler, chef of the upstart Bill's Bar and Burger, a first-time entrant who followed Mendelsohn's lead in having hot models stand around getting out the vote. "What can I say?" said Randy Garutti, czar of Danny Meyer's phenomenally successful Shake...
...Diyala largely in the hands of the Iraqi security forces. The soldiers and police who man the many checkpoints wear the latest fashion in pattern-disrupting camouflage uniforms and patches that say "Special Forces" or "SWAT." But they still rely on controversial antenna-rod bomb detectors that may in fact be useless. Their transport consists primarily of high-performance Ford trucks that break down without clean high-octane gasoline that's hard to find in Iraq. And such is the capacity of their resupply operation that they beg for water from passing foreign convoys. "They'd die out here...