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...away the Playboy and rest assured that the English department hasn’t left Harvard undergraduates high and dry now that newly-departed Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa’s “Sex and Sensibility in the Enlightenment” is just a relic in the CUE Guide archives. English Lecturer Marie K. Rutkoski’s fall semester class on Renaissance dramas will include lit staples by Freud and Foucault. According to the course description, “the culturally foreign, madness, and the supernatural” will all be explored. Sounds sexy...
...away the Playboys and rest assured that the English department hasn’t left Harvard undergraduates high and dry now that newly-departed Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa’s “Sex and Sensibility in the Enlightenment” is just a relic in the CUE Guide archives. English Lecturer Marie K. Rutkoski’s fall semester class on Renaissance dramas will include works by Freud and Foucault, English class staple reads. According to the course description, “the culturally foreign, madness, and the supernatural” will...
...made for each other and made to give humanity a future," he said. Still, the Pope remains the underdog in this intellectual tete-a-tete. Although gay marriage is unacceptable to many, only a tiny proportion of Catholics follow the church's strict doctrine on birth control and premarital sex - doctrines that Benedict has recently reiterated. Polls consistently show that 80% of Spaniards identify themselves as Catholic, even if only about one-fourth actually practice their faith. The divorce rate in Spain, where divorce was outlawed as recently as 25 years ago, runs at about 50%, while abortion rights...
...SUBTLER--AND OFTEN FAR SWEETER--than the risk-taking modeling that occurs among all sibs is the gender modeling that plays out between opposite-sex ones. Brothers and sisters can be fierce de-identifiers. In a study of adolescent boys and girls in central Pennsylvania, the boys unsurprisingly scored higher in such traits as independence and competitiveness while girls did better in empathic characteristics like sensitivity and helpfulness. What was less expected is that when kids grow up with an opposite-sex sibling, such exposure doesn't temper gender-linked traits but accentuates them. Both boys and girls hew closer...
...kids get older, that distance from the other gender must, of necessity, close. Here kids with opposite-sex siblings have a marked advantage. Last year William Ickes, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Arlington, published a study in which he paired up male and female students--all of whom had grown up with an opposite-sex sibling--and set them to chatting with one another. Then he questioned the subjects about how the conversation went. In general, boys with older sisters or girls with older brothers were less fumbling at getting things going and kept the exchange flowing...