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...breakneck pace of last night’s game would tend to favor Harvard’s running offense, but instead it led to turnovers and quick, one-and-done possessions...
...porn is an “imperfect substitute” for subscription porn. Would you elaborate on what this means?BGE: Imperfect substitute means it’s not quite as good, or at least it’s different. So what’s different about it? It tends to be less organized; a free-site user would have to spend more time searching for the desired material. Maybe a user of a free site wouldn’t be able to get the same variety of choices. On the flipside, a paid service has problems too, starting with...
...Harvard was a boys’ club for centuries before women finally broke in. The disparities are not totally overcome; a forthcoming report from the Women’s Center on gender gaps in student group leadership suggests that men still tend to run the most “prestigious” student groups, defined by students themselves. But female freshmen come into the Women’s Center in their first few weeks to find a welcoming space for them as women. Full equal status has yet to come, but everyday miracles like Women’s Week...
...make church members more eager to subscribe. "Tough times are often good for the church," says spokesman Ross, "because people are looking to connect with each other and to connect with God." If that sounds like spin, it is - but it also happens to be true. Church attendance does tend to spike during tough economic times as people search out community for spiritual and material support. Warren's message is particularly likely to resonate with those who have lost the jobs, homes and possessions that defined them. Left to rebuild their lives, they are literally looking for a purpose...
...hours after the murder of two British soldiers by a dissident republican terrorist group, it saw the kind of action Northern Ireland thought it had left behind for good. A policeman, Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, was shot dead in a nationalist area of the town - northern Irish conurbations still tend to be divided along political and religious lines. Carroll was the first officer to be shot dead in Northern Ireland for 12 years...