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...lack a petite bulge in my shorts. If I’m to be a convincing guy, I’ll need to act from a consistent, stereotypically male worldview. According to Starecheski, that means inflating my confidence and my sense of entitlement and privilege. Somewhere in the silent night, I can hear Harvey Mansfield twitch in gender agony...
Fortunately, Harvard students have not remained silent on Ec 10. Whether from dislike for the class or a belief in competition, 708 undergraduates have signed a petition calling for an alternative to Ec 10. By voting against an alternative course, the Economics Department’s Committee on Undergraduate Education has turned its back on the 708 students who signed the petition and every other student who wants a better economics education...
...SARS. But the reality didn't hit her until she arrived at her brother's home for the family's weekly mah-jongg game. Everyone had to wear slippers, and there was a designated "shoe area" to prevent footwear from contaminating the flat. The usually raucous pregame lunch was silent?the 10-person group had agreed not to talk to avoid spitting on one another and the food. Kong's brother wiped the mah-jongg tiles with rubbing alcohol to disinfect them?three times. "We played mah-jongg with everyone in masks and gloves," she says. Kong hasn't gone...
...into the room of a Yale sophomore who displayed an upside-down American flag in her window to express her opposition to the ongoing war in Iraq. They left hateful messages directed against the student herself, and more broadly, against Muslims and Iraqis. Several days later, Yalies holding a silent vigil in memory of Iraqi civilian casualties were spit upon and harassed at residential college dining halls. Then came more affronts: an obscene and threatening message was left outside the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, where many Muslim student groups meet...
...white pickup rolled up, and the crowd got silent. A body wrapped in a yellow-and-orange blanket was lifted out of the bed. A nurse tried to dump out the puddles that had collected on the plastic mattress of a gurney and the body was lifted onto it. "He was 70 years old," said one of the crowd. "A martyr...