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Offering first-year women free admission to a Roman-style wild orgy party and calling them “vestal virgins” perpetuates the notion of the first-year girl as a commodity and novelty. The prevalent conception that first-year women are easy sexual targets for upperclass men is already a problem at Harvard; Decandenza’s advertisement only exacerbates this problem...
...Abel. But the means of catching them evolve constantly, and therein lies CSI's hook: the public's post-O.J., post-Monica fascination with DNA and modern forensics. Killers are traduced by their own dandruff; sleuths use aerosol to reveal telltale traces of blood. It's an appealing notion--spray-on justice--and CSI aims to make the science "approachable, understandable and fun," says executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. CSI underscores its tech savvy with innovative visuals: a whooshing special-effects sequence whips you through a poisoning victim's veins. Then there's the novel, noirish location...
...questioning the questioning the notion that a person can “own an idea,” Sen joked that India should have patented the decimal system...
This redistribution to the workers is consistent with the economic notion of “sweat equity”—those who produce the product have more of a right to it than the middlemen who have take a large percentage of the sale price but add nothing to the product itself...
...didn’t know about my tiara, nor did he know about my sash. There were no cameras for me to smile into and the trash can with my breasts was literally a thousand miles away. Still, I carried with me the silly notion that I am Miss Harvard. I know that the title has gone to my head and that I’ve exaggerated its importance. I know there is no Miss Ivy League pageant to prepare for, no events for me to speak at and no official duties to perform. But the crown has reminded...