Word: information
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...Portland Mercury in 2007: “You can't trust them with your young.” In doing so, Adams reverted to a stereotype about stereotyping and became the boy who cried bigot. I would venture that Adams was indeed correct in his assumption that bigotry would inform the media’s treatment of his alleged affair. Whereas older men who hit on younger women are thought of as sleazy (read: Bill Clinton), men who solicit young men are dubbed “lewd” or “perverted” (Larry Craig, anyone...
...their feelings hurt, the nature of the relationship—between two men with a significant age difference—violated enough of our society’s sexual norms to prohibit Adams from ascending to office. The ultimate tragedy is that the private sphere is allowed to inform the public to such a drastic degree...
...Braque pored over the great still lifes--all those apples and bunched tablecloths--and took from them ideas about distorted forms and tilted planes that he and Picasso would carry into the profound thickets of Cubism. The serene heft of Czanne's many views of Mont Sainte-Victoire inform the muscular Maine landscapes of the American painter Marsden Hartley. The enduring reach of Czanne can even be felt in Ellsworth Kelly's Lake II, a color-field wall panel from 2002 that distills and abstracts the visual experience of water, just as the old Frenchman distilled the forms...
...revalidates it by clicking a link. This leads to a phony website that demands the account password. The scammers immediately hijack the account and use the address book to send out phishing letters. Often the supposed sender explains that he or she is "really sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism/HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education." That certainly would be an ambitious agenda for a conference, but the only potential beneficiaries of the fictitious event are the scammers. "The internet is wonderful in many ways but these gangs...
After heated debate, the Undergraduate Council passed legislation yesterday allocating $300 to the creation of brochures that inform students about the options available to pregnant women at Harvard. The Council also granted $24,151.45 to student groups in its first round of funding for the spring semester. The brochure will provide information on options relating both to termination and to pre-natal and post-natal care. The bill, which was co-sponsored by high-ranking members of the Harvard College Women’s Center, Harvard Right to Life, Harvard Students for Choice, and the Radcliffe Union of Students, allocated...