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...that prides itself on its diversity, we look an awful lot like one another. Is it sloth that induces us to pull on our jeans and sweaters? Or is it something more menacing—peer pressure to conform? No, the kids at my high school sporting black, safety-pin-perforated clothing hadn’t been very clean, but they always had something interesting to say about civil liberties. In high schools like mine, clothing was meant to signal political views as well as social membership. And at high schools everywhere, clothing can also be a means of sparking...
...day’s action ended fittingly when No. 3 junior co-captain Jesse Jantzen (149 lbs.) recorded yet another pin...
This week The Yale Daily News announced, under the headline “Barely Legal Frosh Pose as Pin-ups,” that a dozen male Trumbull College first-years had bared their chests for a $7 calendar, with proceeds to benefit an organization called Women for Dignity and Self-Reliance. While such comfort with the scantily clad male body is both rare and laudable in frosty New England, the Yale calendar unfortunately exhibits the prudishness and lack of self-perception we have come to expect of Elis...
...Philippine intelligence also reports he was involved in an October 2002 bus bombing in the capital. "If there are any Indonesian connections to Mindanao, then this is the group they're dealing with," says Gonzales. "The key person is Muklis. If we get Muklis, we pin down the group...
...monthly column in the Romance Writer’s Report, unusually named “Tiger Beat.” Pottinger makes it clear that she inherited the name, that she has nothing to do with it, and that it has nothing to do with the teen pin-up rag. This soapbox, from which she says she may retire imminently, allowed her to respond publicly to a Publisher’s Weekly round-up of popular romance novelists. In a piece entitled “Write Fiercely, Harvard” she balked at an editor’s smug...