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...presented sisterhood in a fair and accessible way, highlighting both the cultural as well as religious aspects. At a time in my life when I am starting to get the courage to tell people about my future plans, seeing this article helped me feel more comfortable with my relatively uncommon potential career path. I appreciated TIME's bringing news of this alternative lifestyle to mainstream society...
While the situation may be new to Harvard, it is apparently not uncommon in the world of women’s college hockey...
Unfortunately, this kind of abuse is not uncommon. This particular event has become infamous because it is on film and the student’s screams of pain are clearly audible. Seventy-four U.S. police departments now use "non-lethal" weapons (NLWs), which include such tools as pepper spray, beanbag bullets and tasers.Their introduction has been welcomed by many who see them as a safer way to diffuse potentially dangerous situations, particularly those that involve people on drugs and the mentally ill. But advocates of NLWs tend to ignore one resulting danger: their users are likely to become more trigger...
...that The Crimson’s editorial on Asian American admissions used the term “loosely” to denote people of East Asian descent, completely disregarding entire subpopulations of the term “Asian American.” Sadly, this casual use is far from uncommon but does a serious disservice to populations such as underrepresented Southeast Asian Americans, who were found in a study by New York University to have one of the highest high school dropout rates...
...speaking at the request of the bookstore, according to Rubey. “They were concerned that since it was lunchtime, they wanted to have as many people get signed copies as possible,” she said. The event will not be ticketed. Such an occurrence is uncommon at Harvard Book Store, with only about 10 to 15 percent of visiting authors not speaking, according to Lamphier. “It depends on the prominence of the figure. If you have a 24-year-old novelist, then they’re obviously going to be doing a reading...