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...simple. No one ever has the right to hit you. Nobody. What gets murky is that our culture is filled with the mythology that women are taught to nurture men, accommodate their weaknesses, and overlook their failures - that women are much more intuitive emotionally, so they should help men unearth their childhood traumas. I think a lot of that is why I get sucked into this savior fantasy. I thought it was my role as a woman to help my ex-husband. Women think they can take on anything and that we're supposed to. We live in a patriarchical...
...modern art for Christie's London, is hoping that Monday's record results will give a boost to future sales, after several auctions have taken place with extremely limited supply. "This was a special case," she said of the Paris auction. "But we hope that this will help us unearth more masterpieces, to convince others that this is a good time to sell. We see tonight that people very much still want to invest in art." Nevertheless, the same logic - and the shaky world financial system - may yet convince collectors to hold on to what they...
...everyone is so enthusiastic, however. Dr. Jon Adams, director of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton worries that site preservation and scientific knowledge will be sacrificed in Odyssey's quest to unearth valuables. "I don't think they're the best people to be conducting this retrieval," he says. "They're in business to make money from what they find beneath the sea. They're basically treasure hunters...
...also highly probable that Felt's assistance to the press chasing the Watergate scandal was not limited to the assistance he gave Woodward. In the early months after the 1972 Watergate burglary, the Washington Post was nearly alone in trying to unearth the truth about the incident. But as more and more was revealed and after Judge John J. Sirica forced the initial burglars into cooperating with investigators, a feeding frenzy broke out among news organizations. It was likely the most competitive period in the history of the American press. As the story grew, home office editors put more...
...Harvard Crimson discovered an 82-year-old secret. Eight Harvard men were tried and expelled in 1920 on the basis of their sexual orientation. But in 2008, their story is mainly unknown to the undergraduate community. Filmmaker Michael Van Devere, a Harvard Extension School graduate, seeks to unearth the voices of these men in his film “Perkins 28: Testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920.” The film will premiere at 7 p.m. on Nov. 17 at Hilles Cinema. The film derives its title from the dorm room Perkins 28, the alleged epicenter...