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...with the death of dating and the rise of hookup culture respectively mourned and marveled at in the pages of such arbiters of culture as The New York Times Magazine, women like that girl in my mom’s freshman hall have become the norm. And while my mother says this girl’s sexual self-expression was a kind of political project, women at Harvard today entertain overnight guests with different intentions...
...Dozens of silent stars failed in the talking pictures that went from novelty in 1927 to the norm by 1930. Wong had garnered raves for speaking German with a natural precision in her first talkie, Hai-Tang. Her West End stage debut in The Circle of Chalk, though, was calamitous. Critics derided her "Yankee squeak," and the show's producer, Basil Dean, blamed her for its early close. Apparently, she didn't always project for audiences to hear her, and when they did they were appalled by her flat California diction. Well, she was from California. Maybe she didn...
...manning those guns. It's the unfortunate troops in Iraq, many of them reservists and National Guard members, who are fighting and dying in Bush's ill-conceived war. David Sheffield Los Angeles Bush is a proven leader and a god-fearing man. He goes against the norm, and that ticks off everyone. I'm proud to have him as our President. Mike Dampier Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S. The president has given back to Americans something we have longed for and needed for a long time: hope for a moral and strong U.S. Nancy Jackson Blossom, Texas, U.S. I find...
BUSH IS A PROVEN LEADER AND A GOD-fearing man. He goes against the norm, and that ticks off everyone. I'm proud to have him as our President...
...republican senator Norm Coleman thinks Annan should resign his post simply because the alleged oil-for-food scandal happened on his watch? What, then, does Coleman think George W. Bush should do? What about the "catastrophic success" of the war in Iraq and the biggest federal deficit in history? Perhaps Coleman can suggest the appropriate punishment for those things. Jeffrey J. Mariotte Douglas, Arizona...