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...planned for Valentine's, and she'll tell you that it's all been set - the chocolates, gifts, and dinner, all prepared and paid for, by her. On Barentain Dei, women take the initiative to shower their honmei or sweethearts with gifts, profess their love, and humor their male classmates and colleagues with giri-choco or obligation chocolates. For teenagers it's a bittersweet initiation into romance and courtship, where girls brave a few burns to learn the art of tempering molten chocolate to create one-of-a-kind treats for the captain of the baseball team. For the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Valentine's Day Conquered Japan | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...there choco-fatigue? About 70% of the women polled in one survey wish the custom of doling out giri-choco to their male bosses and colleagues would just end. Moreover, according to one poll, 58% felt that Cupid brought the blues, not because of a lack of dates but because of all the preparation involved. That would include, for example, standing in line for half an hour in the freezing cold to get their hands on that $55 box of four chocolate bonbons. Morinaga, a leading chocolate maker, has research showing that an increasing number of women in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Valentine's Day Conquered Japan | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...evil predators, the course preaches; a great number of them run around assaulting women, and they can never make us climax, because, as discussed in section 10, entitled “Masturbation and Orgasms,” we live in a “society that defines pleasure by male standards.” Class members would do well to find better sexual partners, I would...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mistaking the Revolution | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...agreed with the study’s conclusions. “I’m not surprised at all,” said Koh. “A lack of sleep now will certainly have negative consequences eventually.” While the conclusions apply particularly to its male subjects, a correlation between gender, napping and heart health could not be drawn due to incongruities in the female sample population, according to the study...

Author: By and Michael A. Peters, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Siestas May Help Health | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...never changed it. I’m a southern child—I was to be called Drew. That was the understanding. There are lots of women in the South who get these male names. My father thought I should get a name that honored my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of whom were named Catharine. So Catharine was put in front of my name Drew. I was never called Catharine; I was always called Drew. It was just a first name that I never used...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Sees ‘Long and Successful’ Term | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

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