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Last Sunday night, dozens of Harvard students waited at Johnston Gate for the Senate bus, more commonly known as “the fuck truck,” to whisk them away to a sort of revelry rarely seen here. The invitation, sent out to hundreds of Harvard e-mail accounts, had called for “queers, gays, allies, men, women, queens, dykes, bois, girls, butches, femmes, fairies, fruits, trannies, homosexuals, bisexuals, heterosexuals, drag queens, drag kings, and friends.” These Harvard hopefuls were headed to none other than the famous Dyke Ball, an annual fete...
...classes. Once in a while I read something that evokes them--Evan S. Connell's lovely novels about Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, Garrison Keillor's sweet-savage Lake Wobegon comedies--but an air of reminiscence touches those works. I guessed that television, the Internet, the jet planes that could whisk these characters to Europe overnight, had long since thawed their taciturnity, granted them full citizenship in the culture of complaint...
...good Alcoholics Anonymous member will tell you, half of defeating your problem is realizing that you have one in the first place. Although we might want to, we cannot magically whisk away those individuals who hold views that disgust us, or for one minute ask them to forgo their constitutional—and moral—right to express those opinions, however loathsome. But for our own sake, we must start lancing the lies. For it is only through being alert to the ignorant and bigoted bile currently being spewed out by all sorts of figures, from Senator Lott...
...push to whisk children from dangerous homes is predicated on the idea that foster care is safer. Yet in the past two years, more than 60 children have died in DCF's care, and nearly 400 are unaccounted for, like Rilya. Florida has also run out of willing and able foster parents. So child advocates and others have begun to protest. In April 2000, Kayla McKean's grandfather told a Florida newspaper, "Florida has a state-sponsored child-abuse system...and I don't want my family's name associated with that." Kayla's name was removed from...
...easily related to. Movie magic does not save her from the same pathetic scrapes we all could imagine for ourselves that dominate her life before Jake gets a clue. He didn’t even know she was alive and now he is waiting by his car ready to whisk her away...