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Town Manager Kenneth Knight determined that the municipal code prohibited only the display of genitalia or the committing of sexual acts in public. Because breasts are not technically genitalia, and mowing the lawn is not technically a sexual act, Thompson's pleas for justice were rebuffed (no pun intended...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Democracy's Follies | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...more diverse than the corporations would have you think or the radio. Most people listen to a wide variety of music, whether they're black, white or Asian. It just gets to a point where sampling culture, especially in my own work, I usually try to have the music act as a metaphor for plurality in general. And the music acts as a hypothetical space for all these different cultures of North America. I'm from New York. I live in Chinatown. You turn left the signs are in Hebrew, you turn right they're in Chinese, you go straight...

Author: By Roman Altshuler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: DJ SPOOKY: THE INTERVIEW | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...People sit on their cans and look at the attack ads on TV, and if they're not too disgusted one day they go out and vote," he said. "It's amazing what the simple act of knocking on the door...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dukakis Stresses Grassroots Politics | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...crowd's attention from String Cheese Incident--towards the front, was effectively stopped by the bouncers at the front of each section. The pointing to "friends" and claims of "I left my ticket at my seat" were in vain, and even the spaced-out-girl-in-too-little-clothing act didn't work. Unlike other places, the "No Smoking" sign at the entrance to the seating area actually meant no smoking. By the end of String Cheese Incident's last number, which dragged on for over twenty minutes, everybody's buzz was wearing off. However, when Bela Fleck...

Author: By Emma R. Heeschen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It's Fleck-er-iffic! | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...problem is Glass-Steagall, a Depression-era law that bars U.S. banks from uniting with brokerages and vice versa. In Congress the quid pro quo for knocking it down is expanding the mandated banking welfare program known as the Community Reinvestment Act, which mandates low-interest loans in high-risk inner cities. The banks are willing to go along -- "they know that they won't get deregulation without a compromise," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl -- but Gramm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banks' Requiem For D'Amato | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

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