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...former position of Dean of Undergraduate Education was merged with his current position of Dean of the College, a move designed to consolidate responsibility for undergraduate education, extracurricular and residential life under one person. Since then, Gross has hired or announced plans to hire administrators charged with overseeing sexual assault response, mental health, alcohol and social life...
...Michael Moore launched movies outside the big studios, deploying amateur word of mouth to juice the box office. The audiences caught on--showing up not just to see movies but to send a message. They weren't alone. In the spring, the mayor of San Francisco began his doomed assault against the existing order by simply declaring he would ignore the law and grant marriage licenses to gay couples in city hall. Thousands lined up day after day for a simple civil rite most Americans--Britney Spears included--tend to take for granted. They knew the licenses would almost certainly...
...election year, far from becoming more accommodating, Bush seemed to do the reverse. In the summer of 2000 he delivered a bridge-building address to the N.A.A.C.P.; in the summer of 2004 he snubbed the organization. Two-thirds of Americans favored extension of the assault-weapons ban; in September he conspicuously let it die. He repeatedly offered swing voters expressly what they told pollsters they did not want: a multiyear commitment in Iraq, a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, Social Security private accounts, restricted federal funding of stem-cell research. The most he would do is hint that radioactive...
Stand-up comics, of course, do one-person shows every night, in clubs and concert halls, so it's no surprise that they would eventually make an assault on Broadway. The bigger question is whether they belong there. Cantone, a New York City comic and actor perhaps best known for his recurring role as Charlotte's wedding planner in Sex and the City, is a talented, high-voltage performer with a bag of good impressions (Julia Child, Sammy Davis Jr.) and a bitchy, high-camp sensibility. But despite some second-act musings about his family, including his mother's death...
CHARGED. RON ARTEST, 25, STEPHEN JACKSON, 26, DAVID HARRISON, 22, ANTHONY JOHNSON, 30, and JERMAINE O'NEAL, 26, NBA players for the Indiana Pacers; and five Detroit fans; with misdemeanor assault and battery--and in the case of Bryant Jackson, a fan who threw a chair, an additional felony charge--committed during a brawl at the end of a Detroit Pistons--Pacers game on Nov 19; by Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca...