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...distorted to make him look ridiculous. A long legal wrangle ensued, during which Malcolm, in a pretrial deposition, conceded that she had combined a number of Masson's comments over a period of months to suggest that they had all occurred during a single lunch at a restaurant in Berkeley. Her 40 or so hours of tapes and her notes of interviews with Masson do not contain the three quotations he claimed were fabricated. Still, her legal defense maintained that even if these statements were manufactured -- which Malcolm has steadily denied -- they were true to the nature of her subject...
...good point. In its messy, likable way, Thelma & Louise is getting at even larger, more mysterious issues. Carol Clover, a film scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, says the movie is trying to study, among other topics, "the distance between men and women, the desire for each sex to separate itself." It also attempts to look at the opposite side of that coin: the increasingly dangerous ways in which the sexes come together. Novelist James Carroll wrote last week in the New Republic that "when men and women reduce each other to sexual objects, they take the first step...
...General Accounting Office (GAO) has wrapped up its inquiry at Stanford and is now conducting investigations at Harvard, MIT and the University of California at Berkeley. HHS is auditing over 20 schools and the Navy is performing audits at over 40 schools...
Shedroff lived with his mother, now a librarian at an elementary school, in a one-bedroom apartment in Berkeley, Calif., until he left for college. They were on welfare for his entire childhood, but despite the scarcity of money, Shedroff says his childhood was a nurturing...
Shedroff also credits his musical success to his upbringing in Berkeley, long a friendly environment for musicians. The school district nurtures hopeful musicians at early ages with jazz bands at the fourth and fifth-grade levels and has produced, in the past, several well-known jazz players. Despite such an encouraging environment, though, Shedroff admits that his work ethic while in high school left more than a little to be desired...