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...gallops through the birth of the Chinese republic, the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Up Half the Sky | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...grade itself, and do not attempt to pressure a teacher to change a grade, especially at a conference. (If you believe there is a real issue of injustice, take it to an administrator.) Remember, an A student won't die from getting a B, nor will a B student suffer irreparable harm from getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parent-Teacher Conferences | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...gender barrier; the incidence of eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder—a pathology characterized by preoccupations with an imagined physical defect—is on the rise among the male populations in Western societies. Unfortunately, the general population remains all but oblivious to those men who suffer from disorders more readily linked with Mary-Kate than Bob Saget. A greater awareness of disordered eating and body image disturbances in the male population is therefore in order if the misconceptions, stigma and under-diagnosis bulging at this health concern’s sides are to be slimmed...

Author: By Rebecca Steinberg, | Title: It Isn't Just a Girl Thing | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

...that she is black makes her more likely to be malnourished, impoverished, incarcerated, raped, infected with AIDS and violently killed. Our world today is not so different from Garvey’s. The downtrodden Negro race is no more, but it has been replaced by a people who still suffer from the same racial inequalities across national and continental boundaries...

Author: By Oludamini D. Ogunnaike, | Title: Garvey's Legacy for Blacks Today | 2/9/2005 | See Source »

...past, students would log in to the course and grade reports website to find the surprise of one or two grades. There does not seem to be any logical reason that the Registrar cannot return to this system. We should not be forced to suffer for the negligence of a few late professors and TFs, and should be allowed quick and convenient access to whatever results are available...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Grade Point Anxiety | 2/8/2005 | See Source »

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