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...that the Naked Ladies’ Web site asked attendees to “clean out your closets” so they could “swap for some new things.” Alas, our research on the patriarchal construction of “clothes” was useless. But that didn’t seem to throw off the visitors, who came in eager droves to switch their old for new, and who seemed pretty pleased with their findings. “Everyone here has good taste,” said Chen “Jennifer?...
...contention arguably supported by the UNFCCC itself, which calls for "common but differentiated responsibilities" between nations on climate change. But the reality is that the bulk of future CO2 emissions will come from rapidly growing developing nations, and a climate deal that gave them a free pass would be useless. "We need a process that opens the door for negotiations for all economies," says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change...
...should turn to her confidants for comfort. Taking a pass on crying out from the rooftops does not mean she is being stigmatized. It means simply that, like so many things, an abortion is something one may get through best privately. Politicizing personal experiences is the tacky and useless rhetoric of feeble minds.Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 is a history and literature concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...There are, Faraway Tree aside, two cases in which awareness campaigns are neither useless nor self-interested. For underreported incidents like rape, campaigns are a reasonable method to spur more reporting. Events like Take Back the Night, however smug or shrill, may in fact be serving a useful purpose. For crucial public health measures too—the shortage of Asian bone marrow donors comes to mind—such campaigns might also be helpful...
...rationale: most Nobel Prize winners have had their heyday, so gathering them simply leads to a boring atmosphere anchored in the past. (I doubt most of us stay up late at night worrying about having too many Nobel Prize winners at our next kegger.) Other advice is simply useless, such as “Don’t Take Up Golf.” Watson does occasionally hit the mark, but his pronouncements mostly induce eye-rolling and a fervent desire to know why a man who has done so much in his life could not come up with more...