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Once the idea has taken hold, it's hard to shake off, and the fact that the presidential campaign features a pregnant 17-year-old means that the debate about teenage sexuality is growing only more heated. Girlhood sexiness seems to be everywhere: on TV shows and in movies, in advertising, in teen magazines and all over the Internet. Most disturbingly, it seems to be coming from the girls themselves: the way they dress, the way they text, the way they present themselves on Facebook and, oh, mercy, what they get up to at parties. There are whispers, stories...
...makes fun of paintings. The one where the Virgin Mary has her fingers outstretched? "She's talking 'bout the bloke she met last night," he says. He barely looks at a depiction of plump martyr St. Andrew as we pass. "That cross," Gervais says, "would never hold the weight." It is the first time I have spent two hours in a museum and wanted to stay longer...
...What are Fannie and Freddie again? Fannie Mae and Freddie MAC--let's call them Frannie for short--are mortgage lenders. They don't make loans directly but buy them from banks, thrifts and mortgage companies that do. They hold on to some loans but repackage most of them as mortgage-backed securities (MBSS) and sell them to investors, thus sustaining the flow of money into the real estate market...
...hold some traditional conservative positions, absolutely, but I hold liberal positions as well. When I go out on the street, the real conservatives look at me askance: How come you're not attacking Obama? How come you believe in global warming? But that's never picked up by the left-wing media...
...suspiciously nosed my rented Corolla over the one-lane, open-grate bridge that crosses the Redbank River in Climax, Pennsylvania, two thoughts came to mind. First: is this thing going to hold? Second: if it doesn’t, when the locals fish a mangled car with New Hampshire license plates and a trunk full of Harvard College Library books out of the river, what the hell will they think I was doing here...