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Looking at the title of a Heritage Foundation study of teen virginity pledgers—“Teens Who Make Virginity Pledges Have Substantially Improved Life Outcomes”—it is hard not to be at least somewhat warmer to these ideas. Sadly, studies of this kind provide very little compelling evidence that these programs are effective, even when adolescents are so convinced as to make a virginity pledge. When you control for the number of sexual partners the students had had in the survey, pledgers are in fact more likely on a per partner basis...
...With somewhat forced results, Evans harkens back to his Blake experiment in his latest installment, “Flashes of insight from an intriguing philosopher-artist,” on display at the Museum of Fine Arts through Jan. 30. Like Evans’ earlier work, the exhibit incorporates words, lights and the latest technology to create a somewhat bewildering dialogue between the viewer and art object...
...after a few minutes of constant flashing, the effect becomes irritating and gimmicky—like someone incessantly flicking the light switch on and off. And while this device clearly attests to the complexities of modern communication, traditionally one of Evans’ points of interest, it somewhat detracts from the viewer’s interaction with the texts themselves—making it more difficult to read the screens displaying Evans’ appropriated passages...
...reward of performance comes through offering the audience something that both entertains and educates. But that’s somewhat mundane. Frankly, I find performance less rewarding than the actual rehearsal process. That might seem somewhat antithetical to the project’s purpose, but it’s in rehearsal that I feel I develop as a singer, actor, person, whatever. And that’s really...
...very excited about the prospects of this defense coming into the season,” Everett says, “even though we were somewhat inexperienced. It took some time for us to play together...