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...partners points out a hypocrisy at the heart of my dancing dilemma. Are we girls contradicting ourselves by asking for both modern equality in life and old-school masculinity on the dance floor? Have most boys forgotten how to lead because society keeps telling men not to assume an upper hand? Then perhaps “bumping and grinding” is the answer, however ironic, to this new-aged gender trouble. If you’ve ever seen two partners really “getting jiggy with it”—legs intertwined and faces covered?...
...parenthetical comments are more often off-putting than endearing and his clumsy prose is a poor match for Lewis’ fluency.Lewis’ fascination with the fantastic began at an early age, when he formed an elaborate mythology with his older brother in the upper room of their house in Ulster. Stories sustained Lewis through a difficult childhood, beginning with the loss of his mother and continuing in a series of nightmarish episodes at boarding school. Exceptionally gifted at his scholarly pursuits, Lewis nonetheless suffered from social awkwardness in his youth. He prized solitude and became...
...says admissions officers resisted his efforts. “I’m definitely much more cynical after my experience working with them,” he says, shaking his head. “They won’t change their definition of success from a very upper-middle class standard.” His frustrations with Harvard began with his freshman housing assignment. On his application, he had asked fervently for at least one black or Latino roommate. Instead, he got three white Republicans. His roommate, Yves-Georges A. Joseph II ’06, praises...
...refused to give up his backpack and yelled for help. The alert was sent out to all of the graduate schools located in the North Yard of the University, near Oxford Street and Divinity Avenue. The HUPD advisory reports that the suspect pummeled the victim in the face and upper body. The victim reportedly responded by striking his assailant with his fists. According to Upton, the suspect then produced a knife, indicated that a robbery was taking place, and demanded that the victim hand over his money. But at the time of the robbery, a report filed by HUPD...
Take the feature on Baruch Shemtov ’09, a tie designer, who the magazine interviews in New York at “The Carlyle...a swank upper-east side establishment.” Author Danielle Sassoon ’08 is particularly impressed that “Baruch” (as he is endearingly referred to on second reference) has an in with the maitre d’—a term whose only accepted variant differs in its inclusion of a cirumflex above the “i.” Except that in the article...