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...Mitchum was an early exponent of the actor as outlaw, more interested in getting a role than being a role model. Brando sanctified that posture - the insolent slouch - which over the last half-century has been assumed by a hefty plurality of actors and musicians (mostly male, but there are exceptions). If a star doesn't crash his car, trash his hotel room or smash in a photographer's face, he's not being true to his art, you know what I mean...
When Behnaz Mohsenian, 29, started English lessons at the Najdad Institute in Tehran this spring, the 15 men and women in her class studied grammar sitting in mixed circles. Last month, the language institute divided male and female students into separate classes held on separate days of the week. Not long after, female staff began arriving at work dressed in full-length black chador, at the government-run institute's request. Now plans are under way to move the women's classes to a separate building, to eliminate altogether the possibility of illicit mingling. Promptly, a third of Mohsenian...
...throw away from the Liang Bua cave where the original bones were found - that helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Penn State and another author of the PNAS paper. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half [4'11''] and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there are short now, so were the people who lived there 20,000 years...
...drinking young women on today's campuses. Christina M. Kapma Springfield, Ohio, U.S. Ehrenreich accurately observed that many American men shy away from careers that demand evidence of academic performance. Where she fell short, however, was in her failure to address why that is so. Doesn't she think male underachievement is a problem? She seemed to enjoy the fact that in our feminized culture, when it comes to higher education, the average guy is truly left behind. Paul V. Phillipino Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S. Isn't it strange that just when more women than ever graduate from college and university...
...Penny Radcliffe, head of Credit Suisse's in-house training program, their performances are carefully scrutinized and criticized. One stylish and confident young woman playing the part of a private banker is chided by a colleague for not asking enough questions about the client's family. A young male trainee, with the stressed-out look of someone taking his college-entrance exams, is admonished for asking too many pointed questions too quickly while neglecting to acknowledge the needs of his client with solicitous nods and smiles. After all, when it comes to selling advice?and financial products?to the rich...