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...aside ambition and masochistically (their word) submit to the maternal instinct. In the 19th century, gynecologists warned that any use of the female intellect--from novel reading to higher education--could foreclose motherhood by causing the uterus to, quite literally, wither away. Happiness was a full womb and a vacant mind...
...Broadway St. called HUPD concerned about noises coming from a vacant apartment. Police responded and found the apartment vacant...
...Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with the crimes, but he can't get anyone to believe him when he confesses. This is partly because his friends are as vacant as he is; they talk but don't listen. And also because Patrick, for all his brutal truth telling, is an unreliable narrator. You see, he is mad--so mad, he probably committed the murders only in his head. Which still makes him one sick yuppie...
Elections to BGLTSA's board have generally been competitive in the past, board members say, and some are concerned that they may not be able to fill all the vacant seats this spring...
Still, despite a recent effort by student members of the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) to urge the College to improve this ratio as it prepares to fill two soon-to-be-vacant masters positions, administrators and House masters say the goal of increasing diversity is harder than it seems...