Word: truths
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...truth, IM junkies are a distinct and often irritating breed. The field is dominated by males, with token females generally patronized for their biological--rather than athletic--abilities (as in the ability to fulfill roster quotas of co-ed events). The hard core IM player ceaselessly prods his friends to join in the "fun," and then spends entire games conniving to keep the less skilled players benched like Adam Sandler's character in the critically acclaimed major motion picture, The Waterboy. There is a sense on the IM field that people need to prove something--to overcome the stigma...
...like Ward Connerly or his ideas. Affirmative action, be it through active minority recruitment or the use of racial preferences, remains necessary to counter a living legacy of discrimination traceable to centuries of wrongs. But truth be told, liberals are losing the affirmative action debate. As the referendums, polls and court decisions pile up, we are not getting the results we want...
...many men will not fade until women call their bluff. This change will not come from the courts or Congress. Instead of bemoaning our situation, women must convince men that we are more than Barbies and that we abhor the Barbie treatment. And men must acknowledge the rueful truth: Barbie is just a doll. Jenny E. Heller '01, a Crimson editor, is a Romance languages and literatures concentrator in Lowell House...
Like so many corporate-welfare programs, this one isn't available to all companies. It goes only to those that export. The truth is, most large corporations that use the FSC break are already robust exporters and don't need much encouragement to ship abroad. They would export with or without the tax break. In this decade alone, this single corporate-welfare program has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $10 billion, with about $8 billion of that flowing to the largest corporations...
...cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity is the first fully serious (and seriously funny) movie about the issue that touches, and ultimately subsumes, everything we feel about fame and the discontents it breeds...