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...only were the seniors stylish, they were also socially well-adjusted, a trait prominently in evidence as the group arrived at the restaurant. The seniors quickly integrated themselves all around the long dinner table and began conversing while FM staff members swarmed to the table’s farthest corner, their clannish impulses but momentarily eclipsing their duty to cover the event itself...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dinner For Fifteen | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...ongoing struggle between liberal and conservative factions on the issue, and some predict it will eventually lead to an official split in the latter organization. It is time for Christian officials in this country to grow up on this issue. Anyone who accepts homosexuality as an inherent trait (as all serious and responsible science suggests) must also recognize the injustice of chastising people for homosexuality. Although scientifically indefensible, conservative Christian claims that homosexuality is “curable” present the only logically coherent answer to such objections...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, | Title: Homophobia in God's Name | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

Henry David Thoreau is considered a thoroughly American thinker, but in 1854, when he wrote, "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothing," he proved he was also a thoroughly American male. As many a wife and mother will attest, Thoreau's wariness toward fashion is a gender trait that persists to this day. But as frustrating as male shopping avoidance may be for women, their angst is nothing compared with that of menswear manufacturers and retailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look, Ma, No Stains | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...second contention—the “backward” practices of forced marriages and sexual abuse are certainly not Islamic, though they are bigotedly associated with Islam. There are many nations under many creeds wherein the treatment of women is questionable. This is not an inherent trait of the Muslim religion. And portraying it as such is, in a word, prejudiced...

Author: By Nura A. Hossainzadeh, Hebah M. Ismail, and Priscilla J. Orta, S | Title: Column Rehashes Stereotypes of Islam | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

Your sexiest physical trait: You really expect me to pick just...

Author: By E.f.m. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scoped! | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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