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...Veronica than with Chloe—at least Veronica embraces herself. While Veronica gushes over the wonders of a vibrator, Chloe’s attempts at self-pleasure are stalled by the entrance of her roommate, hand-in-hand with her 10-year-old mentee. The moment is a metaphor for the entire book—every moment of self-revelation is stopped short by a cheap...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yalie Chloe Pens Screed About Sex and the Safety School | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

Wagener seems unable to make this distinction. He mistakes Hitler's flights of quasi-history and pseudo science for higher truth. It is a form of mental alchemy that confuses metaphor with fact. Somewhere in the Fhrer's murky idea of Europe's gene pool, the Volk await a new golden age. But first he must burn away the dross of Bolshevism and Jewry. The verbiage grows wild and the mind bloats. Wagener's unintended legacy is a lesson on how a haunted medieval mind could effectively debase reason in the name of reason. --By R.Z. Sheppard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Loved Children: HITLER: MEMOIRS OF A CONFIDANT | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Tuesday, April 19, 11 pm, Vatican City Romans have an old adage that captures their world-wise acceptance of life's minor calamities: "When a Pope dies," they say, "you find another." Inhabitants of the Eternal City, which has absorbed so much history, apply the metaphor when governments fall or jobs are lost or a bus breaks down. And indeed, as we have witnessed today and over the past two weeks, the Roman Catholic Church remains quite adept at filling a void even as large as the loss of John Paul II. Replacing an absolute monarch without the benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Diary: A New Papacy Begins | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

...Crew is like a metaphor for life, because you can carry those skills over into real life, but the Pudding is real life,” Kruger said...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COYNE TOSS: From Final Kick To Kick Lines | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

...Crew is like a metaphor for life, because you can carry those skills over into real life, but the Pudding is real life,” Kruger said...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: COYNE TOSS: From Final Kick to Kick Lines | 4/13/2005 | See Source »

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