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For the intellectual comic or the optimistic realist, 'Smart People' is a good movie. If you don't like thinking hard for a laugh, this is not the movie for you. Dennis Quaid plays Lawrence Wetherhold, an English professor who considers himself extremely smart.
The practice of celibacy is sometimes seen as a rarity in American society, linked to priests, virgins and those individuals who have had one too many sexual partners in the past. Although these associations may be true, it seems as though the complexities and benefits of celibacy have been overshadowed by the societal stigma placed on it in an era dominated by overt sexuality and scandals.
For most of her life, kindergarten through her senior year in high school, senior biology major Alanah Webb felt that she was socially deprived of her true self. Friends School of Baltimore, where Webb spent all 13 years of her academic career, is a predominately white private school in central Maryland.
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