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...tackled, has such an air of comic exuberance that one almost expects to hear a laugh track looping in the background. The presumption that these scenes of intra-couple rage will inspire anticipation rather than disgust begs the question: when did violence against women become so trivial??and so hilarious...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Bruised Bodies, Silver Screens | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.” While the amount of this tax may seem trivial??at its highest it remains under two dollars—it is virtually impossible for a college student living outside of their state to vote without paying some sort of price. However small, this fee constitutes an infringement to the right to a free vote...

Author: By Nicholas J. Melvoin | Title: The Price of Voting | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...would brand him a dangerous man. Even the Lampoon would not honor someone seen as a threat to its female peers. But when the woman is his own wife, the one person whom society expects him to treat with the greatest respect, we instead write off the assault as trivial??as something that “just happens...

Author: By Laura E. Openshaw, | Title: Breaking the Silence, Changing Culture | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

Everyone knows that Harvard students and professors like to hear the sound of their own voices, and this year has been no exception. The last nine months at Harvard have been marked by a deafening amount of speech on issues from the grave to the trivial??a divisive war in Iraq, controversy at morning prayers, outcry over a poetry reading and boisterous debates about a phallus made of snow. Arguments and insults have shot across House open e-mail lists. Outspoken feminist Amy M. Keel ’04 and arch-conservative Gladden J. Pappin...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Permission to Speak Freely | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...Bueché said the accusations against Mack were “trivial?? and that since 1994, Mack had brought together researchers in multiple disciplines, including McNally, to do research on alien abduction...

Author: By Jeremy B. Reff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study Explores 'False Memories' | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

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