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...mere three hours less a week than in 1970. And the pressures of competition make those hours feel like more. Maybe we are deliberately working harder so as to have less contact, less time for self-inspection. (These are self-interested but not introspective times.) I won't pretend to know what all this means, but if you have preserved Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, we look more like the hectic machine than we look like the hapless Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...Would you rather go pretend to have fun in a dorm room with rotting naked people? We do a cappella stuff too, real tight...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blast! Preview: More Interviews With Tonight's Bands | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...would be so ergonomically perfect that you would be like oh, this is heaven....There are parts of me that want to jump out and go to Hollywood and pretend to be an actor for awhile. There are parts of me that want to sit down and write screenplays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Introducing: Fifteen's 15 | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...have seen better days. With their doors closed to outsiders--for some even to members--they are no longer the party places of yesteryear. As the punch season draws to a close, the message Harvard now sends to final clubs seems to be one of peaceful co-existence: We pretend you don't exist, you pretend our rules don't apply. Yet the question remains, how can the University hasten their...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Keep Them Off Campus | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

They still teach kids about the birds and the bees. It's just that these birds wear chastity belts and the bees pretend they have no desire whatsoever to pollinate the local flowers. According to new studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, that's pretty much the script in one third of American public schools. Such abstinence-only programs, which are particularly widespread in the South, keep the lesson simple: Sex before marriage is wrong, and contraception does very little to keep pregnancies or STDs at bay. Critics charge that abstinence programs ignore the realities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Teaching Chastity 101 Really Work? | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

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