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...plantations. No matter what Confederate apologists might think, slavery was not based on the passive acquiescence of an accepting slave population. The subjugation of the slave population was also not the immediate outcome of overwhelming force. Instead, mastery was a constant fight where whites used violence to repress people who never gave up, using both their minds and bodies to either escape or limit the impact of slavery. Faust’s “Mothers of Invention,” which chronicles slaveholding women during the Civil War, seeks to understand a ruling class fighting to keep control...
...Biggest press room applause so far follows the entry of Lives of Others director Florian Henchel von Donnersmarck. Those German journalists sure are nationalistic! I repress the urge to stand and declare, "I am a jelly donut." Someone asks a question comparing Dick Cheney to the KGB. The director wisely points out that said journalist would be killed for asking that question were the comparison really...
...Heberle’s bed. I say, “Oops! I forgot where my bed was again!” That is a lie. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I’m not big on sharing. I stick to social niceties and repress the rest. Favorite childhood toy: My Uzi, full sized, 9mm sub-machine gun. Best part about Harvard: NO PARENTS!!!!!!!! Worst part about Harvard: The low thread-count sheets at Stillman. How you got your name: It was my grandmother’s. She’s dead now. Thanks...
...tries to prevent it as much as possible. It is not legal in our country to practice prostitution, nor are we going to legalize it. Nor are we thinking in terms of turning it into a free-lance occupation to solve unemployment problems. [laughter] We are not going to repress it. What else can we do? If we are harsher, we will be accused of being human-rights abusers...
...Herpes infection is the leading risk factor for sexual transmission of HIV worldwide,” says Lieberman, who adds that reducing the occurrence of genital herpes would make HIV much less transmissible.In addition, Lieberman says, RNAi could, “in principle,” be used to repress HIV—a hypothesis her laboratory will soon begin to test in a macaque-monkey model.LIKE THEY DO ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNELIn ancient times, humans and chimpanzees might have known each other—in the biblical sense, that is.Last month, a team of geneticists...