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...other 20 percent. She says her website logged 1,500 unique hits in September, and it’s easy to understand why. The blog is detailed, no-holds-barred sexually explicit, politically incorrect, and confessional about her history of bulimia. Her writing is blunt and sometimes pessimistic, laced with philosophical musings on what she perceives to be the woeful state of sex at Harvard. “At Harvard, I’ve been in situations where guys would rather do problem sets than do me,” says Chen. Fellow blogger Kameron A. Collins...
...Foley's side is presented by this windy, unusually blunt press conference from his lawyer, who told reporters that Foley was both a victim of sexual abuse and that he is a gay man as well as a "closet alcoholic." Finally, one former page goes to O'Reilly with his story about Foley contacting him via IM (where it got "quickly" sexual) soon after he left the program. Another former page has put up an informational website and welcomes questions. Though probably not "that kind...
...similarly blunt broadside is being distributed by the Arlington Group, a coalition of what it calls "pro-family organizations," including such well-known figures as Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, Gary Bauer of American Values and Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation. "We are very concerned that the early warnings of Mr. Foley's odd behavior toward young male pages may have been overlooked or treated with deference, fearing a backlash from the radical gay rights movement because of Mr. Foley's sexual orientation," the group said. "It appears that the integrity of the conservative majority...
...terror suspects? "I probably would have voted yes," McCaskill said. Then, as the groans and jeers erupted from the European phone lines, she rushed to add: "I'm very uncomfortable about the lack of habeas corpus. But this was better than what the Bush Administration wanted." "Bulls---!" came a blunt retort from Paris...
...urban strategy failed. McCaskill lost the general election to Republican Matt Blunt, whose slim victory statewide was fueled by huge majorities in rural counties. McCaskill earned her political stripes as a tough-talking prosecutor in Kansas City before becoming state auditor in 1998. Since losing the governor's race in 2004, McCaskill used her position as auditor to keep her name in the news, launching high-profile investigations into state-regulated nursing homes and cost overruns in St. Louis's MetroLink light rail system...