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...that the reasons men don't want to have sex are very similar to the reasons that women don't want to have sex. There could be underlying, unresolved relationship problems. Or one of the biggest complaints I hear from men is that their wives are critical or nagging. Trust me on this one, criticism and nagging are not aphrodisiacs. So, many men just go into a cave. You'll never be surprised to hear a woman say, If I don't feel close to my husband emotionally, I don't want to have sex. But you think men want...
...rouse periodic furors. After so many rejections—over 20,000 this year alone—Harvard has gotten pretty good at conveying when it’s not interested. But it has traditionally found it hard to say no to legacies, especially if they have cute trust funds. This generates a great deal of indignation. And indeed, on the surface, the statistics are fairly daunting. Harvard’s general acceptance rate hovers around 8 or 9 percent—this year, a mere 7.1 percent were admitted. Yet the admissions rate was between 34 and 35 percent...
...programs will require a struggle to dismantle. Farming has a particularly strong valence in our national consciousness. The image of the courageous yeoman farmer, rising at dawn to milk the cows seems as American as apple pie or corn-based ethanol. As Ralph Grossi, president of the American Farmland Trust, told the Wall Street Journal, farmers are perceived as “hard working, salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps this sentiment, combined with the political clout of farming states like Iowa and the $80 million big agriculture poured into lobbying last...
...record and are subject to public records disclosure, according to the state’s Public Records Law. In its statement, the school committee expressed “disappointment” over the administration’s actions and believes it “may have violated the public trust.”The committee has also “taken steps to ensure that the administration no longer has access to the school committee’s group e-mail.”Walser said that it is “truly false” that communications with...
...Britain, the second largest contributor of troops to Afghanistan, proposed a new initiative at the summit: A so-called trust fund to encourage countries that are not contributing troops to instead donate money and equipment to NATO operations. On Thursday, Prime Minister Brown revealed that 18 new helicopters and 8 nations had declared themselves ready to contribute to the fund. "This will become known as the burden-sharing summit," said Brown. That, at least, should be a name delegates can agree...