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First, I doubt that any readers of the strip will be learning about homosexuality for the first time. Even in first grade, it was taboo to wear green on Thursday, because it meant that "you were gay." In middle school, the most popular jokes were the insensitive homophobic ones. The modern eight-year-old is probably well aware of homosexuality...
...need to reevaluate the justice of the very principle of affirmative action, in addition to the discrepancies between such a noble principle" and its messy enforcement. Likewise, we should all awaken from our doginatic Slumber, on this crucial issue that somehow remains taboo...
...Koresh had stricter rules for his flock than for himself. Beer, meat, air conditioning and MTV, taboo for others, were available to him. So were any of the female members, though the other men were quartered separately from the women and sworn to celibacy. Some of the women whom Koresh termed his wives were already married to male cult members. Others were perhaps as young as 11 or 12. "He was fixated with sex and with a taste for younger girls," says Marc Breault, who belonged to the group in 1988 and 1989. "He began to teach that...
...Lunchtime. Try to grab a table with other seniors who can commiserate on the living hell that is writing a thesis. Wonder whether the conversation will be able to sustain itself for a record 37 seconds before someone utters one of the Taboo Words--"thesis," "interview" or "next year...
Some stock traders might even be tempted to use the still taboo word boom. The Dow Jones industrial average last week shot up 4%, to a record Friday close of 3442. The 132-point rise in this blue-chip stock index for last week alone equaled its increase for all of 1992. Even more striking, bond prices rose enough to send the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds down to 7.17%, the lowest since 1986 (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). Apparently bond traders, who usually do not trust Democrats, think that Clinton really...