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...their role." When it's put to them that some girls reply "third," they're in stitches again. You do sometimes reply honestly, says Sophie; other times a girl will feel "creeped out" and stop texting. Or she might flirt a little: "how far have u gone. ill tell u if u tell me." Irrespective of the content of a text, the girls say, it's exciting to receive one. "It's like an adrenaline rush," says Kathleen, "unless it's from your mum." One of the great advantages of texting, boys say, is that it lets them avoid...
...girl who became the last Queen of France. Coppola's conceit is to reconceive the court of Louis XVI as a gossip party for rich, vapid teenagers. The film, starring Kirsten Dunst, got a few raucous boos, sending many critics rushing to its defense. Their gallantry was sweet but ill-conceived, for this lame satire is both a parody of emotional emptiness and an excruciating example of it. Such was the desperation of critics to manufacture a cause d'estime, in a festival short on both controversy and content. It's best to see this session as a holding action...
...Broadway and in Hollywood, and staged sensual, often political pieces--1951's Southland depicted a lynching--that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees...
...line separating Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) from the rest of the liberal arts-oriented Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) has always been blurry and ill-defined. DEAS, which administers Harvard’s computer science, applied math, and engineering concentrations, is currently a part of FAS. But the DEAS’s focus on “applied” knowledge makes the division’s mission subtly different from that of most College concentrations. Differences notwithstanding, DEAS continues to be an important portion of FAS. Up to now, however...
...hard-left” academic (“Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized,” letter, May 5). I understand neither what this means nor its relevance: the basis of rational inquiry is the merit of an argument, not its provenance. NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN Chicago, Ill. May 8, 2006 The writer is a professor of political science at DePaul University...