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...where you can interact with just your own sex," and that he finds a "value in male camaraderie." Variations of this theme surface again and again in conversations with club members. Many express concern that with the introduction of women, cohesion, tight membership bonds, and institutional respect would all vanish. They often grow uncomfortable when asked how the current ban on women is any different from past forms of exclusion, such as keeping out blacks and Jews, but most settle on the argument that, unlike race or religion, gender is a "real" distinction.As we all learned in preschool, boys...
...calf and the other human. The beast subsequently incited a plague of mad cow disease and took the lives of the town’s unborn children until it was finally submerged back into the bog. Unfortunately, the film’s shortcomings don’t vanish quite so readily. While “Terribly Happy” boasts an interesting premise and effective visual elements, its superficial characters render the film disappointingly mediocre...
...Last Station” and “Fish Tank”: Awards season wouldn’t be awards season without a few middlebrow, middle-quality art-house pieces that appear and then subsequently vanish from the Kendall Square Cinema over a few weeks in January. A month typically considered a dumping ground for poor movies, foreign and independent films can sometimes be fairly successful when pitted against the otherwise sparse landscape of January cinema. This year, however, hype over “Avatar” has blinded many to alternative movie-going options, which...
...Bristow, Harvard looked to be ready for another comeback win reminiscent of last year’s 5-4 victory. But with junior Reed Endresen and freshman Jason Michas fighting a 2-2 battle at the No. 4 and No. 5 spots, respectively, the scent of victory started to vanish...
...turns out the 2035 estimate came not from a peer-reviewed scientific paper but from an interview conducted in 1999 by New Scientist magazine with the Indian glaciologist Syed Hasnain. The article, which included a "speculative" claim by Hasnain that the Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2035, then became part of a 2005 report by the World Wildlife Fund - and that report, apparently, became the source for the IPCC claim. For his part, Hasnain says he was misquoted in the New Scientist article and claims that he had said that only a subset of the Himalayas' glacial cover might...