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Claiming as much space as you can, Starecheski says, is just a subset of a larger mindset of ownership. “You want to act like you own everything, everywhere you go, every object you see, the floor you walk on,” she says. “When you want to pick up something, pick it up. Just imagine you own everything you touch.” Suddenly, something my housemate Nat Tan ’03-’04 said earlier that night comes to mind: “If you’re going...
That odd fact sheds light on Wolfowitz's membership in a much smaller subset of Washington officials. In Bellow's novel Ravelstein, the Wolfowitz character is a brilliant former student of the book's eponymous hero, who is based on Bellow's old friend and fellow professor at the University of Chicago, the culture critic Allan Bloom. It was at Chicago, the home of Bloom and the conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss, that Wolfowitz was first exposed to the set of ideas that is now often called "neoconservative." In their belief system, neoconservatives--or neo-Reaganites, as some prefer...
...event was advertised on e-mail lists for both the Harvard Students for Choice group and the Church Ladies group, a subset of the CSA that deals with women’s interests...
Surprisingly, turtle-porn—or, at least, its genre—has a long history. “The TMNTijuana Bible” falls under the category of hentai, a pornographic subset of Japanese anime and manga. Janicak explains that hentai is a socially acceptable genre in Japan—so much so that businessmen often read it on the bus. The popularity of hentai is such that a rudimentary Google search on the topic yielded a massive 5,500,000 results. Links included sites promoting XXX videos and featuring erotic pictures of everything from Disney?...
...presently caters to a narrow subset of Harvard’s population—those who are interested in becoming politicians—and does little to encourage widespread student involvement. The change in election procedures for student leaders has reduced the clubby atmosphere somewhat, but increased outreach to student groups and Houses would go even further to address this concern. Were the IOP to establish student outreach coordinators in each House, open to suggestions and useful for mobilizing House political involvement, undergraduates could more easily find a venue for political involvement...