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Some things are good in concept but awful in practice. Like “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Sprite Remix, and Communism. Or Alcohol Edu, the “online prevention program” that all rising freshman were required to suffer through this year to teach us how not to kill ourselves by alcohol. A course which supposedly takes “2-3 hours to complete,” Alcohol Edu is so rife with technical errors and misleading information that it is more likely to be a complete waste of twice that amount...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein | Title: A Waste of Time | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...social scene is a practice in lameness and restriction: “No I don’t want another drink,” “No don’t touch me like that,” “No I can’t kiss you, I have mono.” From Expos on, Harvard students are drilled in the art of sucking at having fun. “What’s the big deal anyway? It’s a just a little case of mono! Besides, you won?...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and D. A. Wallach, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Bell Lap 2: Take Your Red Folder and Run | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...world the Kama Sutra be so prudish? It's a longstanding cliché to note that India has produced both the world's most famous guide to love and erotic pleasure and some of the most conservative social rules this side of Saudi Arabia on such questions as kissing in public. That paradox was on display once again this week in the firestorm that swept India following a seemingly innocuous - and obviously staged - celebrity kiss on the cheek at an AIDS-awareness event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Gere's Scandalous Smooch | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...other nationalist parties to bolster their support? Sudhir Kakar, who has written a novel based on the Kama Sutra and one of dozens of new translations of the ancient text, says the answer is both. "The people who protest want the masses to be offended by [the kiss]," says Kakar, a psychoanalyst and a former senior fellow at the Center for Study of World Religions at Harvard. "They want people not to go down the road towards erotic freedom. There's a struggle going on for their votes, actually." (See pictures of famous couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Gere's Scandalous Smooch | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...through some form of vulnerability, especially if you happen to be a rich, famous white man. But the I-Man - his radio persona, anyway - is not about vulnerability. (The nickname, for Pete's sake: I, Man!) That's creepy enough when he's having a big-name columnist kiss his ring; when he hurled his tinfoil thunderbolts at a team of college kids, it was too much. "Some people have said, 'Well, he says this all the time,'" Rutgers' team captain Carson told TIME. "But does that justify the remarks he's made about anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Imus Fallout: Who Can Say What? | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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