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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nineteenth-century British literature and culture. Be honest—were we dirtier then or now? MBK: We would be shocked by each other. From a Victorian middle class perspective, twenty-first century women look like mannish prostitutes and men would appear vulgar and wimpy. On the other hand, we would be pretty shocked and disturbed by the amount of sexual violence and coercion that was a fact in the nineteenth century. We’d feel like prudes in each other’s company. 6. FM: Which is steamier: Penthouse or Leopold von Sacher-Masoch?...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Matthew B. Kaiser | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...used it, preferring instead to walk to a friend’s room to chat. Chief Justice John G. Roberts and his blockmates often “judged” girls over his red phone, issuing his famous dissenting opinion in the case of Mediocre Asian Girl v. Learned Hand (1975). Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook after too many girls hung up on him when he called to ask for their hometowns, dates of birth, and “favorite interests.” Most famously, while simultaneously dating two “cubanas” in an elite female final...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Harvard’s Hidden Economic Drain | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...structure built from what is now referred to as “Harvard brick,” used to ensure that the gate would resemble already extant eighteenth-century buildings in the Yard. The University requested that the gate, along with future buildings, only use a distinct type of hand-made and wood-burned red brick.The Guardhouse, also referred to as the “Gatelodge,” was constructed in 1983 and designed by Graham D. Gund. Gund graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with two degrees, in 1968 and 1969, respectively. His father...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If These Halls Could Talk | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Obama began his terse statement Tuesday by acknowledging that "there is no more solemn duty as President than the decision to deploy our armed forces into harm?s way." He has been personally writing letters to the families of each U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, hand signing them "Barack." Such letters no doubt will become more difficult to write in the months ahead, when the casualties begin to include some of those he ordered into combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Yes-We-Can War? | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...make an opportunity out of this big mistake," says Credit Suisse chief economist Hiromichi Shirakawa. Shirakawa says that if there were economic implications of Nakagawa's resignation, they might be that the DPJ would "push the reset button" on Aso's pending budget proposal, which includes an unpopular hand out of $21.7 billion to the Japanese public. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan, he says, "can now argue that the government has already lost their ability to get back on a path to recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's 'Drunk' Finance Chief Steps Down | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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