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...dress and mink; I had my mother's slip. So many women were influenced by Jean, the barrier-breaking comedian who died Jan. 1 at 98. With her breezy style, she was much more subversive than anyone probably was aware of at the time. When stand-up comics were almost universally men, she leveled the playing field with lines like "I'll never forget the first time I saw my husband standing on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze--and he too proud to run after it." She always talked about her "rotten kid," when people didn...
...loss puts even more significance on the remaining Ivy games for a Crimson team hoping to win the league and qualify for the NCAA tournament. Meanwhile, Harvard will have almost two months to prepare for its rematch against the Big Green in the final game of the regular season...
...rights icon, Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan introduced the first legislation seeking to make King's birthday, Jan. 15, a federal holiday. The King Memorial Center in Atlanta was founded around the same time, and it sponsored the first annual observance of King's birthday, in January 1969, almost a decade and a half before it became an official government-sanctioned holiday. Before then, individual states including Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecticut had passed their own bills celebrating the occasion...
...real mess" in the state's public arena. He doubts that Rothstein - who could be facing life in prison on the charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering leveled against him - would plead guilty if he hadn't struck a beneficial deal with the feds. They in turn almost certainly expect Rothstein "to name names," says Zelden, not only of those who might have aided the Ponzi scheme, "but of politicians who may have been playing any kind of quid pro quo shenanigans with him." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...pollster Terry Madonna of Franklin & Marshall College. Surveys show voters are shocked by the legislative mess, he said, but it's not clear that they are angry and motivated for change. The scandal, he said, "has led to a good bit of cynicism, a good bit of distrust - and almost despair...