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...that the statement, “Increased availability of condoms has not led to a substantial increase in their use, as such devices carry the social stigma of a lack of trust,” should refer to consistent usage, not to all condom usage. This is an important point??condom use in fact has increased substantially in many places, but unfortunately this has not translated into consistent usage, which remains quite low, or into lower HIV infection rates in Africa’s population-wide epidemics. EDWARD C. GREEN Cambridge, Mass. April...
...Despite conceding the doubles point??a recurring theme of its season—Harvard swept the singles en route to a comfortable victory...
...With all but one of the singles matchups requiring a third set to separate the players, Columbia clawed its way back into the match with the equalizing point??a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 win for No. 2 Nichifor over Ermakov at No. 3. At No. 4, a similarly resilient Harvard performance by Felton wasn’t enough to prevent defeat—the freshman went down 3-6, 6-3, 6-7 (7-9) after a tense third-set tiebreaker with Haig Schneiderman...
...When I asked the company’s human-resources representative if I should take the Acela train to New York, she laughed, told me I would never get to the office in time for the interview, and booked me a ticket on the Delta shuttle. I saw her point??the “high-speed” Acela can only travel an average of 85 miles per hour. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a close friend of mine from high school was landing at Shanghai Pudong Airport for his semester abroad. He bought...
...while expecting us to sympathize when he broods like some character out of an artsy feel-bad movie (Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream” and “The Fountain” being the prime offenders). The “Match Point??-esque ending is designed to be a carnival of conflicted pathos—Woody Allen’s romantic anxieties shot through with Martin Scorsese’s manly poetics—but Gray’s attempt to be an auteur of enclosed spaces and private struggles...