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Perhaps the swimsuit issue is after all nothing more than a harmless break from the midwinter blues. Its readers, though, should remember that the models are actually women with real bodies, warts and blemishes included. No woman should be compared to Elle Macpherson. Nor any man to that Soloflex bum...
...world. No deadlines, no set place to live, no roots, and no 9 to 5 office job waiting for the Danish wagon to come around at 11:15. I would hang with mates in Australia, visit Amazons in South America, teach English to Japanese executives, or be a ski bum in Switzerland. Or all of the above...
...Joycean style. Totally insane, with great passages of lyricism here and there. I thought it was the best thing since Rimbaud. And when Simon & Schuster rejected it, I gave up. I threw half the manuscript in the East River and said, 'My father is right. I'm a bum.' I felt the solution was total anonymity. I had to atone. So I joined the Army. They'd cut my hair, and I'd be a number. To me the American involvement was correct. My dad was a cold warrior, and I was a cold-war baby. I knew that Viet...
David Whitty, executive director of Shelter,Inc., a program that helps homeless families andrecovering alcoholics, said Healy has implied thatthe homeless do not belong in Cambridge and thatthey fit the stereotype of the willfully dirty andobnoxious bum. "If he had said those things aboutany other group of people there would be outrageand calls for his resignation," Whitty said...
Ivan Boesky's first uncomfortable nickname came from his wealthy in-laws, who referred to him as "Ivan the Bum" for his lack of direction. No ring to it, but some truth. The young Boesky had put in stints at three different colleges before finally earning a degree from Detroit College of Law. Later he drifted from job to job, working unhappily as a law clerk and then as an accountant. "My father always considered him a ne'er-do-well," claims his estranged sister-in-law. But once the restless 29-year-old Boesky arrived on Wall Street...