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Literature is not�a democracy. In the book world, being popular does not necessarily make you great. But if it were, and if it did, then the man sitting across the table from me in a canary-yellow mansion in Palm Beach, Fla., would be president-for-life of the literary universe, and Philip Roth would be a comptroller in North Dakota...
...party at final clubs—despite the fact that they have to go to the bathroom in the basement—have an equally sharp and saucy brand of ironic fashion sense. It is much harder to exemplify irony when you don’t have a mansion left to you for no reason, but these girls do admirably under the circumstances. Often they wear ironically short mini-skirts and cable-knit sweaters in a pastel color. Or, if there’s a theme party, they all ironically wear a bra and a man’s oxford?...
...that what 14-year-old girls are into these days?” Wint asks. The March 2006 issue features a handwriting analysis of competitors’ signatures. The graphologist’s prediction for the student living upstairs at the Fox’s JFK Street mansion? “This guy is going places.” Wint’s first journey was from blah to babe. “I was kind of a fat kid in middle school,” says the now-svelte Wint. When asked to choose his best physical attribute...
Levy writes, “the FCP asks: Why throw your boyfriend’s Playboy in a freedom trash can when you could be partying at the Mansion? Why worry about disgusting or degrading when you could be giving—or getting—a lap dance yourself...
...spending more money on Harvard-endorsed parties and programming for the planned campus pub. Harvard’s women would be better served by democratizing a social scene dominated by all-male institutions than by meeting rooms. Only when women do not have to stand outside a final club mansion in a short skirt and heels, hoping to be judged “hot” enough to have a social life, will substantial progress be made towards mitigating gender inequalities amongst Harvard students. To this end, Harvard should also be prepared to collaborate with existing women?...