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...enviable conundrum. Yet my letter writing has not ceased with my return. Every once in a while, when the stress of Harvard keeps me from sleeping and I find myself with a few unaccounted for hours in the wee morning, I return to my old habit. I face down a blank screen and churn out a letter. I have productive insomnia. I have victims...
...based on my apparent gender. He'sfrom Oklahoma. So is my ex-boyfriend. We chat.After half an hour, he informs me that he isfifteen-and-a-half years old. I nearly have aconniption. He is kind of sweet, though, so I keeptalking. Unfortunately, Zeb turns out to have theunpleasant habit of continually asking me tomasturbate at the computer. Apparently, he cruisesfor women jacking off on the 'net, and collectsthese experiences for future reference. HeB-13All this and more...at your fingertips...
...easier for a woman to acknowledge this because subliminal prejudice hurts women too. Studies have shown, for example, that people are more likely to find an article convincing if it is signed by "Bob Someone" instead of, say, "Barbara Someone." It's just the brain's little habit of parceling reality into tidy equations, such as female=probable fluffhead. The truth is that each of us carries around an image of competence in our mind, and its face is neither female nor black. Hence our readiness to believe, whenever we hear of a white male losing out to a minority...
...early at the Manchester Holiday Inn for a sensible breakfast of All-Bran and whole-wheat toast. It is part of an unvarying routine that includes yogurt and two apples for lunch daily and meticulous markings on a chart tracking his morning run. Such a creature of habit is now doing the most insensible thing by jumping into the G.O.P. presidential primaries in a way the political oddsmakers see as quixotic: he is already vastly out-financed and out-organized. Until he decided to test the presidential waters, Lugar was best known for being passed over for the vice-presidential...
...like this. The insanity must stop. Embarrassment aside, she's heading for one mean sneeze. By going along with your girlfriend's nasty habit, you are not helping anyone, save the Kleenex company. And the last thing corporate America needs is more unwitting help from the little people...