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...Frank said about gay marriage. He said that gay and lesbian individuals, “have managed to validate something long proven—that women want to get married much more than men do”—referring to the fact that the vast majority of same-sex marriages are between women. “Left to themselves, heterosexuals could never prove this,” he said as the crowd erupted in laughter.Frank also wondered whether moderate Republicans would ever break from their party, adding that they always stuck to the party line on important votes...
...don’t quite remember when I first heard about downloading music. It was somewhere in my early high school years that a friend first showed me his vast catalogue of illegally procured tunes. This was indeed the Holy Grail: a never-ending supply of music was just waiting to be pulled from an immense, digital horn-of-plenty, and my iMac was my very own, blueberry-flavored ticket to sonic heaven...
...only the bottom ten percent a legitimately bad grade of “III,” the only students who would really be more motivated would be those bottom ten-percenters. The forced curve at HBS effectively dooms the vast majority of the student body to relative mediocrity. The curve is the real source of student apathy, not the whims of potential employers...
...wondering what has become of children's books with the sweeping, mythic dimension of classic folktales, here is proof that the genre still has life in it. Gerstein's stirring story covers hundreds of thousands of years and a vast landscape; his illustrations rise to the realm of Chagall-like lyric fantasy. He tells of the earth's last giant, who, exhausted by his unrequited love for the moon, falls asleep and over the centuries becomes a mountain. In a town (Pupickton--from the Yiddish for belly button) built on his belly, the residents live in fear of waking...
...talk in fashion now is the Chi nese market, and here, too, Dolce & Gabbana is doing things its way?without a local partner and with vast shops in the tourist destination of Hangzhou as well as in Beijing and Shanghai...