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...Gaffes to the Rescue" [Feb. 19]: i wonder whether Michael Kinsley's imagined description of ABC executives' using "a crack of the whip" on the gaffe-prone African-American actor Isaiah Washington was simply an unfortunate use of a cliché or evidence that even those who take it upon themselves to analyze gaffes are still subject to perpetrating them. I agree with Kinsley that we should all be able to shrug off the stupid things people say (or write), but I found his use of a potent image of slavery in this context to be ironic...
...Jenny Savalette de Lange A ubiquitous figure of high Parisian society, de Lange resisted marriage, leaving behind a string of rebuffed suitors-and for good reason: upon her death in 1858, coroners discovered that she was in fact a he. Rampant speculation about de Lange's true identity prompted the publication of more than a few "histories" unmasking the transvestite socialite as the last Bourbon monarch, still in hiding...
...push-pins at the Women’s Center, the stay-at-home-or-work debate, and the final club problem, are perennial favorites in the inter-feminist and anti-feminist conversation. The institutions are relatively innocuous compared to the implications made by the arguments, built precariously upon them, that often stand in for actual issues of substance. These imperfect scapegoats are, in many ways, an indication of the luxury feminists at Harvard enjoy: However snide and insidious is the sexism that feminists say they face, Harvard is at least forced to pay lip service to an equality of genders...
...clear he was used to interacting with people who don’t know what in the world to say to him. According to the Boston Globe, this man had, upon hearing of his son’s death, flown into a blind rage and set fire to himself and the truck of the Marines who had brought the bad news...
...school protect against highly contagious diseases like measles and mumps that can be spread with relative ease. HPV, on the other hand, is transmitted through sexual contact alone. While the government has a responsibility to protect public health in requiring vaccinations for dangerous and contagious diseases, forcing HPV vaccination upon women is wrong. Perry’s decision may have been made in the spirit of safety, but it intrudes upon the rights of women to make decisions about their personal sexual health. Nevertheless, the vaccine will, as Perry points out, save lives, and we hope that all women should...