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...academies is nothing new, nor is marriage--once graduation is over. Thus, the service's decision to let the couple graduate with full honors is sparking waves of controversy in the barracks of the academy, at military bases and along Pentagon corridors, where some fear the academy's once strict regulations are becoming a loose, case-by-case catalog...
Clearly Amos has some issues. Much of the religious skepticism that pervades her thought as well as her music is a reaction to her strict upbringing (she was born in Newton, N.C., and her father was a Methodist minister). In addition, the sexual-assault theme in several of her earlier songs, including Me and a Gun, derives from an incident 13 years ago in which Amos was raped by a member of her audience whom she had offered to drive home. She is a co-founder of the Washington group RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network...
...study abroad and I joined the tens of people in the Office of Career Services Study Abroad meetings (in comparison with the literally thousands of juniors at other schools spending time abroad and getting credit). Yet soon I felt a semester would not be enough, given Harvard's strict curricular requirements abroad. And so, approved program and all, I am starting down a different road...
...suspect in many circles; the more politically correct--or at least clinical--term is erectile dysfunction, or ED, as it is commonly abbreviated. Inspired by a 1992 National Institutes of Health Conference and landmark 1994 study on the problem, the diagnosis has been defined more broadly, from the rather strict criterion of inability to get an erection, period, to the somewhat more elastic and subjective criterion of inability to get an erection adequate for "satisfactory sexual performance." This has led to a tripling of the number of men estimated to be impotent in this country--some 30 million according...
...California Governor's Race. In a political culture that favors government by proposition over experienced leadership, and has strict fundraising rules that weaken candidates who can't drop 10 to 20 million dollars of their own money on their campaign, multimillionaire Democratic gubernatorial candidates Al Checchi and Jane Harman just might succeed in buying their way into the governor's seat...