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...Harvard, where students have spent years protesting against sexism, racism and homophobia, there is still one bias many feel free to flaunt: regional prejudice...

Author: By Janet C. Chang, | Title: Like Race, Regionalism Can Be Cause for Bias | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

Cambridge justifiably views itself as a unique community within Massachusetts. This distinctiveness does not, however, translate into a right to flaunt the will of the people of the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Should Not Try to Subvert Vote | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

However, lest we concentrate too heavily on the asexuality of this film, it must be noted that femme fatales needn't be sexual superpowers. Great objects of male desire are invariably so much more than that. They are multi-dimensional, interesting women who flaunt their own indentities and resist being typified as silent, passive, objects of male interest. One thinks of Debra Winger as Joy, C.S. Lewis' love interest in "Shadowlands," or Meryl Streep as Karen von Blixen in "Out of Africa." The same principle holds true in light romance, from Meg Ryan's idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic Sally...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: 'Four Weddings' Is Not Worth Celebrating | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

Last night, I dreamt of my ideal garment. Itwould be a black dress with the "I just got abargain!" logo written across it several times. Itwould be tight; a cotton-lycra blend, probably. Itwould not be subtle. After all, if you've got itat Filene's Basement, really flaunt...

Author: By Eleni N. Gage, | Title: A Personal Voyage to Filene's Basement | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...would think they were bluffing if it weren't for the fact that one had "become root" (for just long enough to flaunt it to the director of computing) on MIT's Athena. Unlike our own wimpy system, Athena is one of the most powerful university networks in the world--and one of the best defended...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: Reading Rudenstine's Email | 4/14/1993 | See Source »

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