Word: normalization
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...them of the incident “near Kirkland House on Mt Auburn St.” A later message informed them that Harvard University Police had deemed much of the campus, with the exception of Kirkland and Eliot Houses, safe enough for them to “resume normal activity.” Message Me was last used to inform members of the Longwood campus—which includes the Medical, Public Health, and Dental Schools—that classes and other activities were suspended due to suspected swine flu cases. After Monday night’s shooting, students...
...included a letter to all of the people who bought a car from the dealer being closed saying that they would get a year of free oil changes at the dealer staying open in the next town. There might even have been an apology for doing something which, under normal circumstances would never have been done...
...Still, says the author, there are certain rules in the bedroom, just as there are on a football field. Asked at the press conference whether it is a sin to use a whip during sex, Father Knotz stressed that he "does not talk about pathology but a normal behavior. We should not make a sex shop out of the Church...
...nicely. Lambert, 27, may have the best chops of the bunch (his ability to hold high notes recalls Grace Slick in her prime), but where he really outshines them is in self-awareness. While his peers act as if being plucked from obscurity to sing in prime time is normal, he understands that he's on a television show, where acting normally would be completely abnormal. In his hands, a song and a performance are separate messaging opportunities, so "Born to Be Wild" becomes a rock anthem and show tune, "Ring of Fire" a love song verging on the orgiastic...
...Saturday. "I just want to be treated like everyone else, and going around and screaming I am gay isn't going to help me." Says Sergei, who is married to a woman but advertises for liaisons with men on gay dating sites: "Being gay is just not considered normal like in the West. In Russia there are just no good [gay] role models. No normal people who happen to be gay." (See pictures of Moscow...