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...Just a Squirrel Tryin' to Get a Nut" (Fifteen Minutes, Nov. 5): It frightens me to think that two intelligent and well-educated women would rather accentuate issues of gender inequality than fight them. The writers continually refer to the women of Wellesley as "girls" as opposed to Harvard men, suggesting the subservience of women. These authors are only helping to strengthen the part of our society which hopes to make women subservient...
...harsh and fickle world of teen chic, kings are crowned and deposed every fifteen minutes. MC Hammer's shiny balloon pants soon popped and Vanilla Ice thawed from chill to slush in a matter of days. The New Kids on the Block lasted only as long it took to learn Jordan-Joe-Donnie-Jon-Danny's names. "I stopped having any real idols post-NKOTB," says Maureen P. Murphy '01. "I had all the buttons and the sheets and the sweatshirts. I was pretty fanatic about them, but I got a little of sick of it after a while...
...Fifteen minutes before the guns of the Western Front fell silent, Lieutenant Larry Austin '20 of the U.S. 28th Division and 109th Infantry Regiment commandeered a charge on a German machine-gun nest and was killed shielding his men from crossfire...
...Dear Fifteen Minutes...
...Fifteen-year-old Alex McClendon was the classic new kid in town. When the lanky 5-ft. 5-in. freshman sashayed into Georgian Country Day School in Carrollton, Ga., heads turned to gaze at her blond coif and perfectly made-up face. Beyond the look, the popular Alex had a flair for style. Nothing could come between her and the Calvins that were her daily uniform. Nothing except the board of trustees at her private school, who "invited" Alex to withdraw. It wasn't just her pierced tongue that rankled, but something she had taken greater pains to conceal...