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Anthony S.A. Freinberg ’04, a Crimson editorial executive, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. Rumours that the whole British thing—including this endpaper—is a chick-getting ruse have not been confirmed as of press time...
...story he was developing about Reid. Last week police raided the home of Pearl's liaison to Gilani, a man who goes by the alias "Arif." But inside they found his relatives mourning him, claiming he had just died in Afghanistan. Police suspect their story may be a ruse...
...fact, despite the stereotype, it has not been proven that fraternity members or athletes commit more sexual assaults. Instead, psychologists have found a correlation between peer support of ruse or coercion and violence against women. Think about it: If your friends talk about women in demeaning ways—as objects just to use—it is going to be hard to resist that attitude yourself. Therefore, while final clubs and athletic teams provide structured settings in which such heartless social conditioning can occur, it also happens at small social parties, in dorm rooms or clubs...
...planned. “Apparently our ruse was a bit transparent” joked technical director Jennifer W. Thompson ’02. “I don’t know how the other workshops went ... but the construction ones weren’t well attended.” Thompson suggests that techies had already committed themselves to other projects by the time the mid-semester workshops were held. Ruiz also conceded, “A few problems came from the simple fact that we were trying to do something new,” Nevertheless she expressed...
...that he did, the consequences for Pakistan could have been far worse than the specter of angry mullahs hitting the streets and burning his effigy. In all probability, Pakistan would have been branded a rogue state because of its admitted affiliation with the Taliban and for starters, what better ruse than a pre-emptive move to 'neutralize' our nuclear facilities?" Musharraf's survival, the paper suggests depends on his enlisting the support of Pakistan's mainstream political parties, whose ambitions he thwarted by suspending parliamentary democracy when he seized power...