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...prospect sharing a shower with Daedalus flies and Spee junkies.He didn’t even call to say he was coming. I had to call him. You can imagine, on Halloween, calmly enjoying a beverage upstairs at some pretentious party, when a half drunk female-acquaintance, obliged to be wearing almost nothing, stumbles into me to announce the good news: “your roommate’s moving in!” “Oh really? With whom?”Yes, needless to say, I was thrilled. Will is a 300lb giant. My room is large...
...with the doctrine of personal responsibility and the disdain for welfare mothers. Hester Prynne is transformed into Hester La Negrita (Jenné B. Ayers ’10), an illiterate homeless mother of five who lives on the fringes of society, under a bridge. Instead of being forced to wear a scarlet “A,” she continually writes the letter “A” because it is only letter of the alphabet that she knows.Hester is viewed largely as a burden to society because her quest for social advancement is undermined by her tendency...
...slim woman with strawberry blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, Roy, 29, says the decision to wear the traditional black veil is her own. "I could wear what a typical person my age would wear and blend into the world," she says. "But I wanted a constant reminder that every day I put on my veil, I am of God's service and I need to be about his work...
Newer nuns see the veil as a public expression of faith, says Cheryl Reed, author of Unveiled: Inside the Hidden Lives of Nuns. "You can understand why a woman who has given up sex, freedom and money would want to wear her wedding dress--which is what they consider their habits to be. You want to say, 'I'm special. I gave this...
Delude yourselves with a sense of pride; go ahead, pretend you’re a Harvard student for the weekend. Wear Crimson; no one will question you. It’s better than choosing Princeton as a new rival and finding out that you’re not even second best...