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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...young, blonde, attractive, and intelligent. You must be in school, preferably Tufts or Wellesley but BU and BC are acceptable (definitely not MIT). You should be able to hold a conversation, know when to be quiet, and polite in all your behavior. I have seen unruly guests embarrass members before…This event is black-tie, and I am willing to procure an evening gown for you. I hate to sound so harsh, but I have expectations to live up to. No Black, Asian, overweight, or unattractive women please. Picture required...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine | Title: Discrimination? Here? | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

Wang is hyperintelligent, hilariously funny, sensitive?and self-deprecating. Having started out as a fashion editor at Vogue among some pretty big personalities, she has every reason to have adopted some strain of diva behavior. "I am not a diva," she says. And she's not. Born to traditional-minded Asian parents and raised with what she jokingly calls "good Midwestern values," Wang says, she's "a worker." Her work ethic?few could argue?has paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aisles of Style | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...truly dangerous false equation is Matory’s conflation of "criticism of Israeli policy" with anti-Zionism. By encouraging a state to improve its behavior rather than go away, real policy criticism assumes a state’s legitimate existence. But anti-Zionism, by definition, negates the Jewish—and only the Jewish—national right to self-determination. The former is part of a healthy debate in a free society. The latter is usually a coded expression of anti-Semitism, since it denies Jews what it rightly grants to all other nations...

Author: By Douglas E. Lieb | Title: Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...interview with TIME, Kilpatrick blamed some of his "boneheaded" behavior - particularly during his first term - on his youth, and his initial inexperience managing a major city. His image, especially the earring, alienated many of Detroit's black professionals, notably middle-aged women. "They didn't think I had the life skills, or they thought I wasn't like their sons - engineers or doctors," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Kwame Kilpatrick Grow Up? | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...Black Caucus, spent years in Michigan's legislature. His father was a county commissioner. A former college football captain who trained as a lawyer, Kwame Kilpatrick himself was a rising star in Michigan's legislature before being elected mayor. So he was hardly a political neophyte when he displayed behavior many view as unseemly for a sitting mayor of a major American city. For many, Kilpatrick's style and his attempts to cast himself as a racial martyr sent the message that, "This is our city now, and the thug life is OK," says Mildred Gaddis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Kwame Kilpatrick Grow Up? | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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