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...same manner, I can feel comfortable complaining to my friends about my love life while many of my homosexual friends choose to keep quiet because the objects of their desire are illegitimate in the eyes of many people who hold explicit or implicit power at this school. When a socially conservative professor invites me to bring a "significant other" to a gathering, I can feel comfortable bringing a woman, while a gay man or woman might think twice before bringing their own significant others because they fear the effect such "outspokeness" might have on their academic life...
...sputtered. This, of course, was a small form of perjury, as D. had conveniently used the fact of her voter registration to evade trial in her home state. D. had in fact spent several years as a successful fugitive from the law and from country record-keeping in this manner, without ever having to renew her driver's license. Life on the lam is sweet...
...hard for the uninitiated to know how closely the stereotype approximates the reality: Is the club a magnet for those looking to engage in Harvard snobbery--a place where final club meets country club, where the elite of the elite can dine, converse and recreate in a manner commensurate with their social station and intellectual standing? Or is it an island of warmth and nostalgia for Harvard alums, a welcoming space outside the bustle of an often hostile city, where everyone has something in common and no one feels self-conscious when reminiscing about the glory days in Cambridge...
...Davis said the waiter behaved in anunprofessional and disrespectful manner throughoutthe incident...
...master of concentrating all power in his hands by keeping his opponents off balance. He has long manipulated appointments in the military and the government so that no challenger to his power could ever emerge. But if Indonesians have come to expect his cryptic utterances, Suharto's inscrutable manner has unnerved international lenders trying to hammer out concrete programs to restructure the country's banking system and reschedule corporate debt. "What is this man about?" asked a Western banker in Jakarta. "Anytime you think you have a solution, he reshuffles the cards, and you have to start all over...