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...Kornan said: “You don’t ask about the sexual orientation of the doctor.” A political candidate—regardless of sexual orientation—should run on competence, intelligence, and honesty, she said. While Korman encouraged candidates to be up-front about their sexual orientation, she said a politician should not depend on this facet alone. “You don’t hide who you are, but you don’t run on that,” Korman said. However, Jarrett T. Barrios ’90, a former...
...awards show with the vibe of an all-star party; it's a party masquerading as an awards show. That's the Golden Globes when it's in full, fulsome flower. For one night, the TV viewer gets up-front gawking privileges, a chance to see George and Johnny and Julia and Jodie act, not like actors, but like movie stars - looking great, cracking wise, radiating celestial glamour. That's why the Golden Globes is the third-highest-rated of these annual bashes, after the Oscars and the Grammys...
...Macaque Mating Market," published in the December issue of Animal Behavior, males in a group of about 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, traded grooming services for sex with females; researchers, who studied the monkeys for some 20 months, found that males offered their payment up-front, as a kind of pre-sex ritual. It worked. After the females were groomed by male partners, female sexual activity more than doubled, from an average of 1.5 times an hour to 3.5 times. The study also showed that the number of minutes that males spent grooming hinged on the number...
...risky to be up-front,” Bhatia said. “But we really felt that our number-one priority was to solve our two-body problem well, meaning that we both had jobs that we were excited about individually...
...Pakistani people," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. But former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto opted for a wait-and-see attitude. "We don't want vague and generalized statements,"? she told a press conference on the eve of a massive anti-emergency rally planned for Friday. "We want up-front answers...