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LIKE REALITY TV, ROLLER DERBY mixes contrived personae with real conflict, theatrics with real spills. The women of the Austin, Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls league are equal parts athletes and punk-feminist performance artists (with drag-queeny noms de skate like Venis Envy and Miss Conduct); they wear Catholic-schoolgirl skirts and fishnets and deal out bruising blows. "You can be completely feminine and athletic, threatening and sexy," says a skater of the sport's appeal. Gorgeously shot and structured like a drama, each episode delves into the lives of skaters, some fighting off demons, others blowing off steam. As their...
...with it. Karen Montgomery Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. The idea that the president can unilaterally transform legislation that Congress has passed by using a presidential signing statement to explain his actions is outrageous and contrary to the Constitution. No rational American wants the presidency to have such power. Mike Ford Austin, Texas, U.S. Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish, can be found at time.com. Telling Stories your report "the trouble with memoirs" described the controversy over how much of author James Frey's "memoir," A Million Little Pieces, is made up and how much is real [Jan. 23]. Frey...
...reality show, is regularly described as a manic elf, with “spikey hair dyed royal blue on top with a pink tinge around the sides, gold earrings, and royal blue fingernail polish.” He is Perkins’ idea of a TV’s Austin Powers...
...Both Harvard fencing teams accomplished the latter. The women finished the weekend at 3-0 and ended Sunday with a 14-13 win over No. 3 Columbia, a team that was actually favored against the Crimson. With the score tied at 13 and one duel to go, senior Anne Austin, who had not lost a duel all afternoon, capped a 3-0 foil performance against the Lions en route to the victory. The win followed easier triumphs over Yale and Cornell in earlier action, by scores of 20-7 and 21-6, respectively. “We all came...
...Austin, Texas...