Word: sisterhoods
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With female final clubs, the Seneca, pre-professional groups like Women in Business, and ethnic groups like South Asian Women’s Collective, it may seem that Harvard’s women are faced with a dizzying array of options in terms of success-driven sisterhood. Why memorize the words to a Kappa Kappa Gamma (Kappa) song when you could be networking your way to Morgan Stanley through Smart Women Securities? Yet every February about 150 girls—smart, modern, and mostly freshman—begin the process of rushing Harvard’s three sororities. The recruitment...
...Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen, it’s possible to see the same lovely face on more magazine covers than ever before. Hopefully, they’ll be successful enough in maintaining distinctive lives that they won’t have to revert back to exploiting their sisterhood. 2. The Rolling Stones Rumors have been circulation about another tour in ’08. Nothing’s been officially confirmed yet, and with any luck, Mick Jagger will stop trying to prove that he’s aged gracefully. 1. The Messiah It’s always...
...participate in evil while perceiving it as normal. Ultimately, the people who ran my pledging process were not monsters. They were regular college students. Most were nice, accomplished, educated, socially-conscious, and even proclaimed Christians. We all knew each other, and in some cases had developed intimate bonds of sisterhood. They, like the women before them, only did to me what was done to them. It is strange how a cycle of violence is perpetuated through intimacy...
...show her obedience by sleeping with other men; it turns out he's a pimp, and she narrowly avoids a lifetime of prostitution. Indeed, hardly a page goes by without somebody collapsing in sobs. Male readers especially will find the book sodden with tears, hugs and declarations of sisterhood. But then the author's own life gets interesting. Yearning for someone to watch over her, she plays along when friends jovially offer to arrange a marriage - and suddenly finds herself wed to Samer Khan, a moody former mujahedin fighter with whom she has virtually nothing in common, including a language...
...Later, Stella will descend into misanthropic madness in a Perth boarding house, while Perdita, starved of her sisterhood with Mary, will seek out "the families of readership" as a trainee librarian. With a mastery of mise-en-sc?ne, Jones writes of the family's future as if it were the past, and the past as if it were the present. For the surviving members, what happened in the station's kitchen continues to play out, not unlike the true-life case of a Japanese soldier lost for 29 years in the Philippines jungles, who refused to believe World...