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...overly motherly Teresa Vandershmidt. Amidst all this, “Castaways” also manages to sneak in a bit of satire on American culture, lampooning our blind belief in politics as well as our preoccupation with material goods. When the South American tour guides, in rather Italian accents, tell the tourists that the boat won’t be coming back, Brandon tells them not to be silly. “We’ve only paid half, so they’re bound to come back for the other half.” But, the plot line does...
...number, four self-proclaimed feminists imparted to their listeners on Friday. Feminists and authors Gloria Feldt, Courtney E. Martin, Deborah Siegel, and Kristal B. Zook took the stage in Harvard Hall, billed as an “intergenerational panel,” ranging from ages 27 to 65, to tell audience members that feminists of all ages need to communicate in order to carry forth the “unfinished revolution” of feminism. “We all agree that women across all generations need to be talking to each other, not at each other, not about each...
...faith and reason. And yet it's this very facet of our religion that is itching powder to a church that insists that only it can be trusted in the end to exercise reason on moral questions - don't try theology at home, the Vatican always seems to tell us - because it inevitably invites the laity to come to its own informed and conscientious conclusions about when human life begins or whether women should be priests. Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made...
...decision to attend the ceremony as keeping with the University’s anti-discrimination policy. “We don’t feel that she is in any way supporting the policy of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’” said Brooks, administrative chair of the Harvard College Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Political Coalition. But Brooks also expressed his desire for more sweeping changes in the relationship between the military and the gay community. “We hope to one day see [Faust] speak...
...First lesson: The seller is going to win, because he invented the game. Friends in the industry tell me that they way to start collecting rugs is to do your homework, by examining catalogs and prices at big auction houses and dealers, then approach smaller shops and look at a lot of rugs. In other words, develop your own expertise. But who has the time? With a job and a social life, no matter how hard I've worked at trying to distinguish between an Iranian Kurdish sumac and an Azeri kilim, there's little chance that I'm going...