Word: let
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This isn't to deny Radcliffe's role in rallying the support of alumnae from yesteryear. But for female students since 1976, the existence of Radcliffe is more of a put-down than a rallying point. Let women be Harvard students, through and through, and let Harvard finally acknowledge women...
...went to Harvard from 1959 to 1963. Let me make it clear to younger readers that almost nothing is more devastating than a childhood without playfulness, youth and young adulthood without dreams or romance without fantasy...
...this molten singer-songwriter has just made her first album, Union, a diary of dashed love and stubborn hope set into layers of melody that will never let the memory loose. Her voice, bold and smoky, has the heft of Joan Armatrading's, a hint of the spiritual urgency of Van Morrison's and, all on her own, power to burn. Union, heard even for the first time, sounds eerie and immediately familiar too. Childs herself puts it perfectly in Dreamer: "You're the voice of a dream...
...inspiration himself. Ricketts provided bass, guitar and synthesizer support and worked closely with Childs and Producer David Tickle on the album's overall production. "David helped me understand the groove," Childs says. His presence, and his occasional prodding, also forced her to struggle hard with her own feelings. "In Let the Rain Come Down, that person I was singing about was right there with me, and the words coming out were, 'You don't love me anymore,' " she reflects. "I was facing up, right then, to what was happening." Their personal relationship had ended by the time the album...
...dishonesty at the heart of the drug debate is the refusal of both sides to acknowledge the pleasure of getting high, a pleasure most participants in the debate probably have experienced themselves without damaging effect. That in itself is no reason to legalize marijuana, let alone more serious drugs. But sensible policy cannot be made without taking it into account...