Word: fortes
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...have worked in transient jobs since the beginning of time--as soldiers, truck drivers, traveling Bible salesmen--leaving the wife and kids home to hold down the fort or moving the entire family from town to town. But with today's preponderance of dual-career couples--80% of the labor force--it is just as often the woman's job that separates the partners. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a historian of marriage, argues that this represents a newly egalitarian attitude toward marital roles. "There's no longer the assumption that the woman immediately puts...
Decorating a room can be tough. Decisions such as which posters to buy at the Coop, whether or not to get a TV, and whether bed risers are a delightful use of space (or just a drunken fort waiting to happen), are all serious questions that every undergrad has to grapple with at some point. Hitler posters and shrines to Barbra Streisand are usually good indicators of latent wacko tendencies (and bad b.o.), but extreme cases aside, how much does your room really say about you? In order to answer this question, FM grabbed two strangers and tested each...
...quit the war in Iraq now? We have at least as much to lose there, maybe more given the Islamic militants' goal of world dominance. If the media and Democratic Congress force a withdrawal from Iraq they are going to cost millions of Americans their lives. Robert M. Moon, Fort Worth, Texas...
...line is in trouble. Returning tackles Curtis and classmate Carl Ehrlich—who missed the Holy Cross game due to a mild ankle injury but should be ready to go for the remainder of the season—should be able to come together to hold down the fort. They’ll get additional help from senior Matt Drazba beginning in Week 4, when he’s slated to return from an offseason ankle sprain...
Robert M. Moon Fort Worth, Texas...