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...House suites--known informally as "The Swamp" and the 10-Man--are famous for their parties. House Master Donald H. Pfister teaches Biology 143, "Biology of the Fungi," and with 17 years under his belt in the House, is now the second longest serving master at Harvard, along with wife Cathy. Kirkland is good friends of the Harvard Foundation's Cultural Rhythms, having hosted a reception for Cultural Artist of the Year Will Smith before this year's production...
...House suites--known informally as "The Swamp" and the 10-Man--are famous for their parties. House Master Donald H. Pfister teaches Biology 143, "Biology of the Fungi," and with 17 years under his belt in the House, is now the second longest serving master at Harvard, along with wife Cathy. The Pfisters and Kirkland House are good friends of the Harvard Foundation's Cultural Rhythms, having hosted a reception for Cultural Artist of the Year Will Smith before this year's production...
...more dignified, to be a woman than a female. Thanks to 30 years of feminist striving, the category "woman" has expanded to include anchorpersons, soccer moms, astronauts, fire fighters, even the occasional Senator or Secretary of State. But "female" still tends to connote the oozing, bleeding, swelling, hot-flashing, swamp-creature side of the species, its tiny brain marinating in the primal hormonal broth. From Aristotle to Freud, the thinking on gender has been that only one sex had fully evolved out of the tidal pool, and it wasn't the sex that wears panty hose...
...attitude is bubbling out of that old female hormonal swamp, powered by new research and, at least in preliminary form, fresh perspectives on the gender-bifurcated human condition. There are signs of a growing acceptance of the female body with its signature cycles and turning points. Some midlife boomers are finding ways to celebrate the menopause, while a generation of "grrrls" is coming of age, with a new view of the menstrual period as an emblem of primal female power. At the same time, some of the sacred tenets of evolutionary psychology--that men are innately more aggressive, more promiscuous...
...ignore the frantic, life-and-death struggle that surrounds us. We fancy ourselves as inhabitants of the ivory tower, but in reality we live among the same trees, birds and bugs as everyone else. Not too long ago, when these proud academic vistas were all pasture land and swamp, it would have been difficult to walk to class without seeing a cow or hayrick...