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...writing on dating and the perplexing rules of attraction that feels the most like a glimpse—or a long stare—at Dowd herself, in all her vulnerability. According to Dowd—and her friends—“disturbing the dating ritual leads to chaos.” Men prefer “malleable” women: “If there’s one thing men fear, it’s a woman who uses her critical faculties.” (On the contrary, Summers–as his recent marriage engagement...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...BEES Hipsters are revisiting this anxiety-filled childhood academic ritual with lexical throwdowns in bars and cafs from New York City to Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Child's Play | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...Another male final club, the Spee, burns its punch book each year as part of a cleansing ritual, according to a member who spoke on the condition of anonymity...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: E-mails Offer Glimpse of Club | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

...farmers in the affected villages go about their preparation for the winter, cutting logs and harvesting corn from the fields. But there is a difference. The farmyards are empty, now, and the ritual morning and evening feeding has stopped. This is a scenario that no hardworking rural Romanian could ever imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Europe's Bird Flu Frontline | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

...course, if you’re a boy who happens to dig other boys. So twice a year, I shred a letter and mail it back to Captain Sullivan with a polite request to be taken off his mailing list. It’s become something of a ritual, since I keep getting the letters, keep sending them back in tiny pieces, and keep getting stoic silence from Captain Sullivan. I’m sure he secretly enjoys it as much as I do, or else he’d probably stop wasting the military’s paper...

Author: By Ryan R Thoreson | Title: The Solomon Precedent | 10/18/2005 | See Source »

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