Word: fear
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...right and the left have happily stepped forward to claim credit for the developments. Conservatives see lower rates of sexual activity as a direct result of abstinence education. Meanwhile, liberals attribute greater use of birth control to better education about and access to contraceptives. (In fact, researchers think fear of STIs--especially HIV--and a natural correction from high rates of sexual activity during the sexual revolution explain much of the change...
Kathleen E. Hale ’09 won the Louis Begley Prize for Fiction for her short story about a young girl who channels her fear about her mother’s cancer diagnosis into an obsession with “bloodthirsty” and “scary” animals. The $1000 prize—which was established in 2000 in honor of former Harvard Advocate editor and contributor Louis Begley ’54—is awarded by the Advocate’s Board of Trustees each year to the best undergraduate fiction piece published...
...Obama administration surprised many in February when it pressed ahead with a Bush policy that refuses to even litigate certain cases for fear of a security breach. Much of the information concerned has been revealed through international government investigations. Nevertheless, judges are prevented from reviewing case information and evaluating the security breach themselves. Such an act directly opposes promises of transparency and holds many worrisome implications...
...remiss if it didn't mention a couple of its favorites. Quincy has been fairly low-key, outside of the distinctive color of their shirts. In this scene, they were in the process of getting outclassed by the Lowellians standing next to them. Fear not, though, you'll be getting a taste of that Master's Residence later today...
...Jordan, Turkey and Kuwait. It's a tough - and nosy - neighborhood, populated by regimes jostling for influence among the various internal factions in Iraq. The key issue is Baghdad's ability to cobble together a semblance of national unity that will enable it to fend off its neighbors. The fear is that Iraq will become a new Lebanon, a multisectarian country whose diversity is both its blessing and its curse. Will Iraq's people be able to put the savagery of the past behind them and truly reconcile, or will they, like the Lebanese, keep their suspicions...