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Responding to the charge that she sent out Perng's e-mail message too hastily and presented it as an official memo from the group, Chang admitted she "wasn't clear that it was an individual, not official, message. I made some mistakes process-wise...
...name--secretary, staff assistant, executive assistant or just plain old assistant--Pilot and a small army of Harvard employees help keep sane and wise many of the world's most famous academics...
...Learn from everything that you do. Also, do what you can't help yourself from doing. If you like being in a band, that's great, but if you can think of something else, career-wise, that you find compelling, do that, because being in a band, or being a filmmaker, or being a dancer, or whatever-those are really stupid careers. They're idiotic careers. They're really hard [and] most people don't make any money doing them. You're in for nothing but trouble. But if you can't help it, if it's what you have...
...Apparently, Andy had been propositioned twice by men while playing harmonica on a street corner in Princeton, and he'd been puzzled. That led to a discussion about male aesthetics and what gay men prefer body-type wise. The natural conversational progression was to then have Andy ask another guy in the circle to flex...
...note that attorney Steven Wise, the self-proclaimed champion of animal rights [AMERICAN SCENE, March 13], does not defend the rights of all animals. Instead, Wise has created his own non-Darwinian continuum to argue for legal rights for only certain animals--the more a species is like humans, the more deserving it is of legal rights. Yet there is a danger in this approach. For it means the less like us, the less likely that legal rights would be granted. We don't live in an "us vs. them" world. We live in a world of "us and them...