Word: though
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...Harvard ladies did have a supermajority, what would that do to campus social life? Well, the obvious transformation of Fox to Vixen, Phoenix S.K. to Flamingo, could leave the women, and not the men, waiting outside for admission on some cold Friday evening in February. Such a disparity, though, could make it far easier for the guys interested in the ladies to find someone to take to the next House formal...
...American film, gender-based violence is, unfortunately, business as usual, though it usually assumes a more somber tone. From Hitchcock’s indulgently Freudian Psycho, with its infamous shower slashing, to Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, with its copious shots of bludgeoned women, misogyny and cinema make comfortable, even gleeful, bedfellows. On television, procedural crime dramas such as Law and Order repeatedly render graphic, almost gratuitously gruesome, scenes of brutality against women, which take sadism to creative extremes...
Yeasayer finally know what they want. Though they have distinguished themselves with their myriad cultural influences, the Brooklyn-based trio now challenge their reputation for eclecticism with a more focused, concentrated sound and an unapologetic drive to make themselves heard...
...still find ways to work their fresh confidence into this more traditional type of song. “Love Me Girl” is hardly a passive request for female attention, and the title phrase is one of the more demanding ways to attempt to save a failing relationship. Though these songs show a more accessible side of the band, they still rely on Yeasayer’s talents for great songcraft, and these creations succeed in transcending the banality of many love songs...
...Though local lore held that the so-called "scorpion tree" had been the work of cowboys, paleontologist Rex Saint Onge immediately knew that the tree was carved by Indians when he stumbled upon it in the fall of 2006. Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County, the centuries-old gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres. "I was really the first one to come across...