Word: fears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your birthday. Once you get one, you either hold onto it or you deposit it. You use the $20 all the time. A month or so ago, you would go to the music store and plop down a $20-bill to pay for a CD. Now, you must fear the clerk will say, "Mister, we don't accept Monopoly money...
...hate crime isn't just an attack on an individual, but on a whole community. For every Matthew Shepard there are a hundred gay men and lesbians who will be forced back into the closet out of fear. Governments must protect all their citizens by taking a firm stand to prevent such brutal intimidation. NIKKI L. DEBLOSI '99 ADAM A. SOFEN '01 Oct. 16, 1998 The writers are co-chairs of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Transgender and Supporters' Association. Sofen is a Crimson editor...
...Kung aren't more puritanical than the English--just more visible. This has always been the great check on the human id: fear of being found out. As Hillary Clinton might say, it takes a village. Or, in the case of her husband, a global village...
...privacy as fast as it tears them down. In the old days, if you wanted to play roulette, you walked into a casino. If you wanted pornography, you bought it in public. The Web lets you indulge these hobbies secretly, even to addictive lengths. But then it throws in fear of retribution from on high--the chance that your data will fall into the wrong hands. (If that makes you queasy, buy your pornography at a convenience store, as our forefathers...
...wasn't talking about the bogeyman, either--or maybe she was. The signal, recurring lesson of PJ Harvey's music, is that desire leads us dangerously, thirstily, curiously into places where we would otherwise fear to tread. Harvey's lyrics were too lacerating to be mere come-ons, but the potency and drama of her music worked like a snake charm. The album and the woman combined the terror and the wonder of a hydra...