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...speech last Monday entitled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon stressed to her Barker Center audience of several dozen that pornography cannot exist separately from the mainstream. MacKinnon is a longtime social activist who has committed much of her career to advocating legislation to curb pornography and representing former porn actresses in suing for damages. In her speech Monday, MacKinnon went straight for shock tactics, suggesting that society is wrong to consider porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came...
...first one is always significant, we’re hoping it can give us some momentum and a little credibility as we start our journey here in the Ivy League.”Ben-Eze might be Harvard’s biggest recruit ever. The 6-foot-10, 230 pound native of Nigeria reportedly picked the Crimson over Marquette, Virginia, and Virginia Tech—three teams that reached the NCAA Tournament last year. ESPN.com ranks him as the 66th-best player in the class of 2008, and according to that website, is a skilled shooter, an excellent offensive rebounder...
...squash variety. Students can make a pit stop at Boston College since they’re already in Chestnut Hill. Cons: After the 45-minute bus ride, students must embark on a 15-minute trek to the farm. Imagine how enjoyable the return trip is with a 40-pound pumpkin in each hand. Shelburne Farm 106 West Acton Road, Stow Pros: “Pick-your-own” policy provides an excellent selection of pumpkins at this traditional pumpkin patch. For the adventurous, Shelburne Farm offers hayrides, pony rides, tractor rallies, and a moon bounce. Cons: Screaming kids...
...separate world is an illusion,” a visiting Harvard Law School professor told the 50-odd audience members gathered yesterday in the Thompson Room in the Barker Center. In a speech titled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon criticized the encroachment of pornography into everyday life. The belief that pornography operates underground, she said, causes people to ignore obscene material that is right under their noses. “No matter how real and harmful pornography gets, it seems to live...
...penned by an English diplomat named Thomas Herbert who sailed to Mauritius in 1629.Five years later, Herbert recounted, “Here only is generated the Dodo, which for shape and rareness may antagonise the Phoenix of Arabia: her body is round and fat, few weigh lesse then fifty pound, are reputed of more for wonder then for food, greasie stomackes may seeke after them, but to the delicate, they are offensive and of no nourishment,” according to Clara Pinto-Correia’s book “Return of the Crazy Bird: The Sad, Strange Tale...