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According to Adam A. Sofen '01, co-chair of the B.G.L.T.S.A, cultural presumption in the sphere of sexuality manifests its itself as "hetero-sexism," which is "the presumption that everyone is straight." Sofen notes, "This is not malignant per se, but it is harmful." In the feminist movement one finds this concern raised particularly with regard to language. The word "freshman" is not overtly offensive, but according to feminists it carries the presumption that everyone to whom it refers is male, no matter how vigorously one protests that it is being used in a gender-neutral sense. Therefore, campus feminists...
Lest we forget, Bill Gates is the world's richest entrepreneur, who made his fortune in the free market. Capitalism is not, per se, a force for good, but the good it enables is immense. Anyone who doubts its unmatched power to finance good works should bear that image of Mr. and Mrs. Gates in mind. KEVIN A. SHAPIRO...
...where Very Bad Things shows itself to be neither "dark" nor "comedy." Somehow Peter Berg, the director, has decided that because the severing of an ear can be a scene at once terrifying and hilarious in Reservoir Dogs, then any scene of dismemberment is terrifying and hilarious. Dismemberment, per se, is neither, as Very Bad Things shows us again and again. This movie is somehow under the impression that dark comedy is the easiest of genres, one part jokes to five parts gore, when what makes it so fascinating is that it is so difficult...
...than the incomparable Billie Holiday, who paved the way for an entire generation of black women vocal stylists, including Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and R.-and-B. singers like Aretha Franklin. Although Holiday, who counted Bessie Smith among her most important musical influences, was not a blues singer per se, her music was deeply rooted in the blues tradition. As a jazz musician working primarily with the idiom of white popular song, Holiday used the blues tradition to inject suggestions of perspectives more complicated than those the lyrics themselves contained...
Some say Stewart's election represented only students' realization of the council's limited potential, not a rejection of progressive politics per se. But evidence indicates otherwise. Last fall's referendum on bringing grapes back to Harvard dining halls was a further embrace of the new, cold pragmatism that has apparently set in among us. Though the debate over unfair labor practices and union organization was muddled by accusations of misinformation, at the end of the day thousands of students voted with their stomachs--an indication of their reluctance to participate in conflicts and debates beyond the Harvard sphere...