Word: maxims
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...Harvard Crimson, Albert Einstein’s head is pasted onto the emaciated, half-naked body on an anonymous woman in a cartoon by a Maxim “artist” presenting his ideal Harvard president. Free exchange of ideas...
...sure that, despite their advertisements, many editors of Let’s Go do not actually want to attract research-writers by holding out the promise of “plucking” the virginity of young Dutch women. I can accept that the Maxim cartoonist might not believe that anorexia and sexual availability should be held up as models for the ideal Harvard president. And I imagine that the owners of Out of Town News and Nini’s Corner may not really think that rape and child molestation are acceptable forms of sexual expression...
...your House subscribed to a magazine that advises parents to send their sons to schools with lax policies on sexual assault? What attitudes—and behaviors—might be associated with reading such a publication? Now go to your mail room and see how many issues of Maxim are delivered. In Cabot House this month, it was 47. Is that acceptable...
...were only that simple. Positioning oneself for Popehood is a catch-22 on a cosmic scale. To be a front runner in the race is, according to church tradition, a formula for losing it. "He who goes into the conclave as Pope comes out a Cardinal," goes the Roman maxim. Take the case of the Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, 71, one of several so-called papabili (Italian for "Popables"). Castrillon Hoyos speaks several languages and possesses an attractive combination of real-world pastoral experience and inside-the-Vatican bureaucratic savvy. In 1999, his compatriot Gabriel Garcia Marquez sang...
...What Maxim does in its own pages is offensive enough, but The Crimson's editors have assaulted the Harvard population with an image that simultaneously degrades women and embarrasses your newspaper. It conveys the message that you support the objectification of female bodies for sexual use. Harvard has come a long way since its days as an all-male Old Boys' Club, but this kind of representation is an acute reminder of how far we have...