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...talk was focused on what’s going on with guys smack-dab in the middle of Guyland, which doesn’t strike me as a comprehensive picture of all the men in this age range,” said Gina Helfrich, assistant director of the Harvard College Women’s Center. “Still, I think it’s important research because the experience of this privileged group has an impact on everybody else...
...standing in the Eliot courtyard, and a friend was pointing out his room to me when I happened to see someone standing right smack dab in a dorm window—100 percent in the nude. Now, to be clear, I didn’t intend in the slightest to see any of this, but once you have seen something like that it’s hard to pretend it never happened. Unfortunately, incidents like these are far too common at Harvard, because much of the student body seems not to realize that their actions inside their rooms leak into...
...Monday. To Republicans, it's all about politics, specifically the possibility that House Democrats will employ a relatively rare procedural maneuver to ram through legislation they can't pass by conventional means, and in the process better position vulnerable members for fall re-election battles. These legislative acrobatics smack of "arrogance" and "cynicism," says Republican Senator John Cornyn...
...sexual abuse during his time as director. Wittenbrink alleges that there was a "widespread system of sadistic punishments and sexual lust" at the school and in the choir. He says he was physically abused by young men in training to become priests at the school who would routinely smack him on the bottom with their hands or sticks. "This amounted to sexual humiliation," he says. "I was scared and I was shocked." (See "More Headaches for the Vatican: Priests and Child Porn...
...Nigeria has been wracked by periodic episodes of violence for decades. The country's 150 million people are divided about equally between Christians and Muslims and further splintered into about 250 tribes. Jos, some 300 miles north of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, sits smack-dab in the center of Nigeria's tumultuous "middle belt," a so-called cultural fault line that divides the country's Muslim north from the Christian south. The "middle belt" is a melting pot where the major ethnic groups of Nigeria - Hausa-Fulani Muslims and Yoruba and Igbo Christians - usually coexist peacefully but sometimes collide...