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Though government—Harvard’s other mammoth concentration—is making a parallel move toward advising reform, its tactics mark a significant departure from the principles guiding the economics department’s decisions...
...Manliness.” It stresses forthrightness, honor, and determination. Admiring the ideals that define manhood affirms the life codes exhibited by many Harvard men. I’ve met many courageous women, but in our quest to prove that women are equal we deny our men parallel recognition and the right to pride...
Legs straight, hold yourself up parallel to the floor by placing your hands on the edge of your seat with arms at a ninety degree angle. Lift up body until arms are straight and then lower into starting position. To add core conditioning, perform on a rolling computer chair. More hours awake=more trips to the café bakery. Do 2 for every granola bar, 5 for every croissant, 10 for every bagel or muffin, and 20 for every other pastry consumed...
...also said that there have been discussions of cases in which coerced abortion is compared to rape. If a woman decides to have an unwanted abortion, then the trauma may begin to parallel that of a woman who has had coerced sex, Suk said...
...title, “Beatrice and Virgil” refers to Dante’s sublime and venal guides through Paradise and Hell in the “Divine Comedy.” Martel evidently hopes to draw a parallel between Dante’s experiences in the afterlife with the sometimes-agonizing human experience of life on Earth. Beyond that obvious reference, “Beatrice and Virgil” is full of literary allusions. Martel borrows heavily from the mood of manic stasis in Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot...