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...official. Now, he said, the international community was united in looking "forward to the future" - and in terms of the formal proceedings at the conference, at least, he was right. The term "shared values" was bandied around so much it seemed that Davos had become one giant undergraduate ethics seminar. Cheney caught the mood perfectly. A man whom, a year ago, many in Davos thought had horns and a tail, came across as nicely self-deprecatory. In a notably conciliatory speech to the Europeans in his audience, Cheney said that the old Continent was an example...
...over the United States as well as 80 countries and have a rich mix of interests, backgrounds, and talents,” its admissions homepage proclaims. Harvard values the diversity that international students bring to the table—after all, it is exciting to sit in a seminar on Islam with students from Israel, Australia, England and Canada, as I did this fall. But apparently it doesn’t care enough to help these students file for citizenship. All Harvard’s talk of being an international center of learning is just an empty slogan unless...
...Grimm Lewis and his wife Victoria paid $400 to attend a two-day PREP seminar in Los Angeles in a final attempt to save their 28-year-old marriage. "I think this will help," says Victoria, the more eager of the two. "I think of it as chemotherapy." Rod figures he's being a good sport. "I came because she asked me to," he says. "I'm about 5% of the problem, and she's 95%." Marc Sadoff, the workshop leader, says, "It's good to hear that you can acknowledge you're 5%. So many people...
...that the way to spice up my marriage wasn't by bringing in more people but by listening to Cassandra, given that my attitude toward sex is about as subtle as my attitude toward writing, only without bothering with that introductory-paragraph part. So I signed up for a seminar at Toys in Babeland, a sex shop run by lesbians in Manhattan. Thirty other men in their 20s and 30s showed up for "Sex Tips for Straight Men." It turned out lesbians know a lot about how to have sex with a woman. They suggested conning your partner into doing...
After the final seminar, held over pizza at Elmwood last Monday night, students lingered to discuss their papers—and the possibility of changing Harvard’s exam schedule so that exams would take place before winter break...