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...rethinking Details, Golin and Conde Nast fatally tried to imitate Maxim without imitating Maxim. Golin, along with a crew imported from his former magazine, went counter to his sleaze-master typecasting, adding un-Maxim-like service articles on money and career. To stave off the lad mags, he also sexed up covers with screaming tag lines--NUDE YEAR'S EVE--and skin. "Yes, we had women on our cover," he says. "But for the most part, they weren't leaning forward; we weren't picking them for their breast size." (Such is the definition of classiness in guy culture today...
...Pioneers won the fourth game 16-14, but could not stave off the relentless Crimson attack in the deciding game...
...rights for women lies. Egyptian activists are quick to point out that the divorce amendments did not come at the expense of religious law, but were successful precisely because they were justified in the context of religious teachings. Indeed, a crux of the reform movement was its ability to stave off the objections of religious hard-liners by appealing to passages in the Shariah that discuss the inherent equality of men and women...
Though Gore has had to defend his liberal credentials in recent months, partially to stave off an attack by a progressive Bill Bradley, his policy proposals stress centrist themes...
...Crimson can stave off RPI's powerful offense, Harvard should have no difficulty in collapsing on the Engineers' weak defenders on offense. And with the trio of freshman center Dominic Moore, ECAC Rookie of the Week, junior center Steve Moore, selected for the ECAC Honor Roll, and junior winger Chris Bala consistently performing in the offensive zone, Harvard should be a force to reckon with...