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...piling up so fast that head-coach heads have begun to roll. In the Southeastern Conference, which includes Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama, six of 12 schools are either on probation or under NCAA investigation, mostly as a result of coaching misdeeds. "Coaches have a high calling," says Charles Bloom, associate commissioner of the Southern Conference. "They are subject to a standard equal to or higher than anyone on campus...
Smirk. Was the word invented in 1959, or did it just bloom into popular consciousness to describe the tone of the Rock Hudson--Doris Day comedy Pillow Talk? That film and its myriad spawn populated the screen with horny men in need of domesticating and bouncy career gals who wore chastity belts beneath their Jean Louis frocks. At a time when Hollywood could still only hint at promiscuity, these movies sublimated their animal urges in the classic farce techniques of innuendo and mistaken identity. If their winks were as subtle as the drop of an anvil, and if their nudges...
...popular because of its ease: a whole vegetable or flower garden can be designed and planted in an afternoon, and pots require less weeding than conventional flower beds. The pots are also coming in increasingly bold and varied styles, to add color to your garden even before the flowers bloom. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...Barry R. Bloom is a professor of immunology and infectious diseases and Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health...
...course, not all the bingo players are queer. Many people attend the event simply for the fun it promises or, like Jonathan M. Bloom ’04, they have come to show support as allies. Barefoot in a slinky spaghetti-strap dress, Bloom says that he is “not queer-identified,” but attended the event knowing that he risked being labeled “gay” anyway...