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...creative black tie” is recommended. In practice, that means everything from lingerie to formalwear, leather to feathers, high femme to butch drag. This year, one Wellesley student wore a satin “vagina” on her chest and asked drag emcee Jay Franklin to touch it. (Franklin, perhaps too much of a gentleman, declined...
...pair of Wellesley students wearing nothing but lingerie and body glitter competed together in an onstage kissing contest. They were so involved in their exhibition that Franklin pulled the scantily-clad students off each other, saying, “This is a kissing contest, and that’s a lot more than kissing...
...American tradition of wartime leadership seems more subdued. The most memorable images are gaunt and painful: the haunted Lincoln; the dark circles under Franklin Roosevelt's eyes; Kennedy standing alone, in shadows, during the Cuban missile crisis. This is a moment far more ambiguous than any of those; intellectual anguish is permissible. War may be the correct choice, but it can't be an easy one. The world might have more confidence in the judgment of this President if he weren't always bathed in the blinding glare of his own certainty...
...Franklin's life was short, but its epilogue has been long. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962. (Nobels are awarded only to living scientists, and Franklin died too early to share the glory.) In an uncharacteristically heartfelt afterword to The Double Helix, Watson admits that his "initial impressions of her, both scientific and personal...were often wrong." She has been the subject of two biographies, a BBC movie and numerous articles, all aimed at giving her the credit she was denied during her lifetime. In 2000, King's College christened...
...number of reasons. First, we thought it was the most important problem around. Others didn't realize that. Second, most people thought it couldn't be solved by building models--they thought you needed to get the answer primarily from X-ray crystallography of DNA. Rosalind Franklin's made that mistake. But we said, "It worked for Linus Pauling when he solved the structure of the alpha helix, so why not for us?" Third, we had each other. It helps to have someone else to take over the thinking when you get frustrated. Fourth, we were willing...