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...Leverett House each Tuesday night, a group of students meets to rub and squeeze away their worries...
Wake up and rub your eyes. The Harvard women's basketball team is winning the Ivy League title again...
This is the rub, of course. Western civilization is not the tired-out conventionalism as Peninsula would have you believe. There are sources of great and invigorating wisdom in the old antheap, and we should take such counsel wherever we can get it. In our foraging, however, we must be careful, unlike our fellows over at Peninsula, not to mistake irreverence for unbelief...
...Steinem wrote in the New York Times, and the current issue of Penthouse promises to reveal "the real Larry Flynt." It includes an interview with Flynt's former brother-in-law, who accuses Flynt of, among many other things, considering a hit on Guccione (there's the rub!) and molesting one of his own daughters when she was 12 or 13. A second daughter--Flynt has five children and has been married four times--has also accused him of abusing her, a charge Flynt vehemently denies...
Long relegated to the ranks of sybaritic pleasure or illicit sex, massage is emerging as a form of body maintenance. Americans spend $24 billion a year to cure back pain. GABR masseurs are licensed and receive company training to standardize treatment. A 10-min. back rub costs $14.95, a 45-min. version $49.95. Says Mary Trudel, 43, who works in a Manhattan public relations firm: "I eat lunch at my desk and come in here for a treat. After a 10-min. rub, I feel relaxed and rejuvenated...