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Speaking of boobs, remember those Republican House impeachment managers, who feigned outrage at Bill Clinton’s escapades, yet were on the record defending Oliver North’s lies to Congress in the Iran-Contra affair? Indeed, the asymmetry between the Right’s panicked attitude about sex and its causal stance on violence is reflected in the basic partisan dichotomy of scandal in this country: in our lifetimes, Democratic scandals tend to be sexual, while Republican ones are often violent. It was in 1984, the year most college sophomores were born, that Gary Hart?...
...through his trial in a Manhattan courtroom on charges of looting the company of $600 million. Kozlowski, whose extravagance became legendary after he left Tyco in June 2002--remember the $6,000 shower curtain?--had to listen as former assistant Mary Murphy admitted that she had been having an affair with him, even as she agreed to his requests to cover his personal expenses with company money...
...Civitas Books; 394 pages), by Jean Fagan Yellin, is the first biography of Jacobs, and it's a harrowing case study of the cruel conundrums women faced under slavery. When Jacobs was an adolescent, her master made sexual advances toward her. She tried to discourage him by initiating an affair with a neighbor. "At fifteen," Yellin writes, "she did not have the option of choosing virginity." But the harassment persisted, and in 1835 Jacobs took more drastic action: she ran to her grandmother's house and hid in a cubbyhole. Her sanctuary was 9 ft. long by 3 ft. high...
...letters are disingenuous and deceptive—but they could easily be dismissed, if only they were an isolated affair. Instead, they reflect a far broader, more disturbing trend. They are blatant attempts to manipulate editorial pages and fill them with campaign propaganda misrepresented as personal views. The entire operation smacks of utter disrespect for the role of journalism and uninhibited debate within a free society. It parallels the Bush administration’s general approach to the media, which includes a sense of entitlement and contempt—an attitude which is echoed regularly in the White House?...
...things going on in the U.S. (like your utterly corrupt administration in the White House), of all the scandals (Halliburton, lack of WMD, the Plame affair, to name a few), this is what the media is concerned with?! Hello? Is there anyone out there who cares that the U.S. is falling apart? Amal Chaaban Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...