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...hard because this what the Goldmans and the McKinseys want, athletes will say this is what their fans, their coaches, and their teammates want. Combine these more abstract incentives with the fact that there are millions of dollars on the line, and it’s reasonable that somewhat excessive measures could come into play. In all honesty, what is the real difference (disregarding legality, of course) between a Red Bull for us and a steroid for them? The motivations are the same, and the attempt to portray steroids some sort of perversion of our own hyper-striving culture...
...site accounted for 7% of all Internet visits. Meanwhile, Facebook has been increasing steadily, currently taking the position as the ninth most popular domain in the U.S., accounting for 1% of all Internet visits. Even though both sites - being within the top 10 of all Internet domains - are somewhat ubiquitous, demographic and psychographic data on users indicates that there are some unique audience components to each service...
...Other students, however, offered a more measured perspective on the current controversies. Another participant at the event, S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, says he is somewhat “skeptical about how broad the impact of the UC party grants really was. They’d only been around for four years and I think their impact was perhaps overstated...
...testing says not really” is clearly out of line. Interracial differences in intelligence have little basis in scientific fact and Watson’s flippant statement solely serves to exacerbate racial tension. For that matter, this is not the first time that Watson’s somewhat radical views have made headlines: In 2003 he received flak for arguing that women should be allowed to abort fetuses if genetic testing reveals they have a predisposition for homosexuality. But while Watson would be a poor choice to lead a conference on political correctness and sensitivity, he remains...
...causing users of pornography, both male and female, to become desensitized to coerced sex. But audience member Cameron Leader-Picone, who is a fifth-year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said he found MacKinnon’s condemnation of pornography to be “somewhat simplistic.” He believes that MacKinnon’s presentation could have benefited from acknowledging that pornography was created to fulfill an impulse that humans already had. “She doesn’t take into account the reciprocal relationship between theconsumers and creators of pornography...