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...Danielo, father of six and owner of a battered, windowless yellow taxi, was as easygoing as his sister. He had the hooded eyes and easy smile of a man whose greatest pleasure in life was sleep, something which, I would find out, he could do anywhere, anytime. He drove at walking pace, the better to be able to chat to friends and relatives we passed on the road. And when I queried the health of the ancient Nissan as it groaned on a slight incline, Danielo explained he didn't worry about things like shocks, door handles or windows...
...only a few weeks time, John Harvard’s staid, suburban sister plans to strip down, get liquored up, and let loose for a week of liberal-minded debauchery. On the heels of an April 7 concert to promote choice, fronted by a lesbian-led rock group at its Lulu Chow Wang campus center, Wellesley College’s GBLSTA group Spectrum plans to host its annual Dyke Ball on April...
...offered an illustrative anecdote: “My sister went to a state school and the Rhodes wasn’t even an option for them. No one encouraged them to apply; no one was there to read essays. We’re the luckiest kids in the world. It’s not a perfect system, but I had a fellowships tutor who read draft after draft of my essay and had meal after meal with me to discuss my graduate plans, to discuss what this fellowship would mean if I got it, to discuss what I would...
...good. The second one was okay. The third one was manageable. The fourth one—I couldn’t get myself to read the fourth one. Seriously, you know the author’s getting desperate when she has to pull out a long lost sister. And now a fifth? How many more times can we stand to read about Becky Bloomwood shopping herself into debt without wanting to strangle her? This is utterly depressing. I need to go on a major shopping spree to cheer myself...
...quasi-political fury characteristic of “Raw Power” and punk rock in general, while managing to be modern at the same time. “Free & Freaky,” for example, contains a statement about the war in Iraq: “My sister went to war / Tied a guy up on a leash / I think about it sometimes / When I’m sitting on the beach.” “My Idea of Fun” points out, “Now is the season / For war with no reason...