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...pain you have caused? Yes—I am not saying you are the ones responsible for making health care a pain in the butt to pass this year. Yale is responsible for that. But I am saying one of you must be a first-class sexual pervert because Providence has truly smitten...
...controversial piece is characteristic of Lord’s style. Her oeuvre is polemical, iconoclastic, and highly visceral. The exhibitions she has curated, with titles like “Pervert,” “Trash,” and “Gender, fucked” appropriate and subvert the language used to marginalize lesbians and other groups. “The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation” is challenging in both form and content. A collection of images, e-mails, and journal entries, it is a breed of memoir about Lord?...
Even more important, as the spiritual leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's biggest Muslim organization, Wahid fought against the fanatics who he said "pervert Islam into a dogma of intolerance, hatred and bloodshed." He could quote the Koran by heart as he defended the right of all people to follow their conscience in matters of religion, and he constantly spoke up for persecuted minorities, even at the risk of his own popularity. He said he wanted his tomb to read here lies a humanist. That he was. He was beloved by millions, Muslims and non-Muslims alike...
...lines between teachers and students as teachers try to communicate with kids in this day and age." Today's kids, as the media have reported recently, are far less shy about innocent physical contact like hugging than their parents were as teens. That can be exploited by any male pervert overseeing a classroom. But it can also embolden predatory female teachers, whom experts say are often in emotionally needy states. "The trend with female offenders, more than males, is that they have emotional turmoil going on in their lives," says Sinacore...
...organization that the settlement creates, the “Book Rights Registry.”No one seems too satisfied with this. Harvard Professor of History and Director of the Harvard University Library Robert Darnton has some serious problems with it, because he believes that commercial interests will pervert what could have been a great public good: a freely accessed database containing all of the world’s knowledge. Numerous authors have voiced dissatisfaction with the terms, believing the $125 million that Google paid them in the settlement to make amends for copyright infringement and the future revenue sharing...