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...when they do, she said, “it??€™s just a wonderfully gratifying experience for everyone...
...with the understanding that I’m still on the Harvard campus, not on a beach, at a pool, or at USC. Therefore, I don’t wear a bikini: I’ll wear something more conservative, like shorts and a tank top. It??€™s just plain awkward to be walking through the Yard or coming home to the Quad and see a girl stretched out on a towel, clad in a skimpy bikini...
This isn’t a feminist argument against bikinis (plus, look up the etymology of bikini and you’ll find a surprisingly powerful history). I just think it??€™s weird and inappropriate to wear a bikini in the Yard, only feet away from Faust’s office, or even in the more secluded Quad, where your House Master and dining hall staff can walk by and see your pasty thighs and jiggling boobs...
...situation, you’re also exposing yourself to a plethora of Harvard Square freaks: one minute you might be laying out, dozing off listening to John Mayer on your iPod, and the next minute, you look up and a homeless man is hovering over you jerking off. Seriously, it??€™s the Square—it??€™s probably happened. We go to school in an urban environment; bikinis just don’t belong here...
Nevertheless, it??€™s uncertain how much of the World Cup’s revenue will trickle down to the very poor. South Africa already has large economic inequalities that have only widened in the last decade. There are indications that the World Cup will only serve to deepen those inequalities. For instance, informal traders and street vendors, who are significant sources of wealth for the South African poor, are being restricted from trading in many cities’ commercial areas during the World Cup. All in all, the World Cup will constitute a contribution of less than...