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Seen at the Coop: framed posters of a man leaning over a woman in the Widener stacks, with the appellation: "Libraries--for those who love books." My question is, who buys these posters and what do they do with them? Do graduates hang in their apartments, a subtle in-joke that just demonstrates their nerddom? Do undergrads put them in Harvard common rooms, and if so, isn't it suggesting foreplay must be curtailed by library hours? The posters seem to send a confusing message. Hardly the sort of thing you would buy framed...
...used to joke that his father had another family somewhere. One day, when I was in college, I got a call from my friend, and all he said was, "You were right." What are you talking about? I asked. And he told me that it had all come out that his father did indeed have another family in a neighboring town. A wife, children, different friends, a different life - the works...
...understand that this cartoon was intended as some sort of joke, but the implications inherent in such a representation demean and objectify women nonetheless. Presumably a woman's head could not possibly signify the requisite intellectual capacity to be president of Harvard; it seems that all of our icons of genius are male. The objectification of a female, anorexic body sprawled across the pages of a supposedly serious newspaper is even more unconscionable...
...fairness to Bush, it should first be noted that his predecessor, Bill "Government Property" Clinton, was no foreign relations master. As the joke goes, Clinton's idea of foreign relations is sex with the Asian intern. The joke may be crude, but the point is real. In truth, Clinton's conception of foreign policy consisted, for the most part, of sweet-talking the world into liking him and, by extension, America. This was basically the same as Reagan's conception of foreign relations, although Reagan's idea of a foreign nation was New York...
...There's Clinton, buying mansions, prospecting for multimillion-dollar multimedia deals, chomping on a cigar on a whites-only golf course in Florida after addressing a group of investment bankers for $100,000. At dinner in Greenwich Village with former Senator Bob Kerrey, a loud retelling of the lesbian joke that helped torpedo Kerrey's '92 campaign made the papers...