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...long before I came to college or was forced to speak in complete sentences, I was talking to a friend while drinking a full-fat frappacino at Starbucks. “God,” I said, “The early 90s were so wack! Meg Ryan must have been out of her mind when she wore those weird ankle boots in ‘French Kiss.’ She looks so incredibly dumb and lame!” “I agree,” said my friend. “ Ankle boots are so bizarre...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ankles Are Not That Sexy, Folks | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...speakers would make others in the class “uncomfortable.” In order to ensure a fair learning environment, heritage students were excluded from Chinese Ba, “Elementary Modern Chinese,” which Feng said is not a class for those who can speak Chinese but can’t write it. Feng said that some students think Chinese Ba—the largest Chinese class this fall with 104 undergraduates—is an “easy A.” “We don’t want to create...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chinese Classes Turn Away Students | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...keeping secrets" method. This involves teaching your kids that the values you teach at home - that alcohol is alright in moderation, that satellite television is acceptable, that a divorced mother has the right to date - are part of a special, private world of which they should never speak outside. This makes a value out of privacy, and sidesteps the delicate task of teaching why it's okay to lie in certain situations, but not in others. None of this wards off the day your son returns home, as in the case of this friend, and informs you that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Child in Iran's Cultural Divide | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...Supporters Alliance were offended by your remarks because they deemed them to be too heteronormative. Are you heteronormative? “I don’t believe to be heternormative but I do live a heterosexual life. I would never...I would never step outside of my boundaries to speak on a lifestyle that I’m not really…its’ not a lifestyle that I live. I’m not…I don’t have an opinion about it. I believe that people should have the right to pick their partners...

Author: By Melissa Tran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hey, Jada Pinkett-Smith! | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...harmless thing.” Library representatives had no comment. Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) also didn’t shed much light on their approach to such incidents. HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano writes in an e-mail: “As a matter of policy we never speak about specific security issues except to say that like all police departments, HUPD uses discretion in all of its activities with public safety being its primary concern.” But one senior in Currier House got in a sticky situation with HUPD his freshman year in an attempt...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tradition, Not Rebellion | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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