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...says that this variation is what makes the publication so powerful. “The stories demonstrate that sexual assault is not only something affecting the assault victim, but also significantly affecting the sons, daughters, boyfriends, and fathers and friends,” Homaifar says. The writing does shed light on a topic often excluded from polite conversation, but does not seem to offer a solution to this growing problem. Each story walks a fine line between portraying a powerful message and sinking into a familiar trope. But occasional clichés aside, the reader is intended to gain inspiration...
...Take Back the Night at Harvard, I suggest that at their closing candlelight vigil, they light a candle for the other victims of sexual violence politics—the ones who find themselves unfairly accused of serious sexual misjudgment. To acknowledge those victims—now that would be seizing the night. Otherwise, honey, you can have...
...Children is written in Tolkien's full-on high heroic style, which is light on the characterization and sometimes hilariously dorky. (An example, chosen more or less at random: Túrin's helmet "was made of grey steel adorned with gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender...
...Take Back the Night,” an 11-day series of speakers and film screenings intended to raise campus awareness of sexual violence, launched in Ticknor Lounge yesterday, and the program’s leaders said they hope to shed light on the concerns of a broader range of students than in previous years. This year, “Take Back the Night” will place a special emphasis on international issues like sexual slavery and will stress that sexual assault concerns both men and women, said co-chairs Astha Thapa ’08 and Laura...
Their observations confirmed one structural model for quasars. The cloud that had eclipsed the X-ray source was found to be a mere hundredth of a light year from the black hole’s event horizon, or the point at which material is permanently consumed by the black hole...