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...budding academic, finally come across a congenial bunch. You've determined that their intellectual work is at a sophisticated remove from anything else you've encountered in your (admittedly brief) career. After doing the political calculations, you realize with a frisson of horror that you can't remember the last time a Critical Legal Studies advocate was tenured anywhere. What...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Academia Succumbs To Desire | 2/14/1995 | See Source »

Gewanter credits the opportunities available to artsy Harvard grads to "a bunch of Harvard MBAs who think of themselves as artistic, work as producers at Fox, and hire friends..." He also acknowledges the Lampoon as a critical breeding ground a certain flavor of "masturbatory teenage boy comedy" marked by gags which derive from "too much panelling, bad weather, ex-debate champs, and small rooms." (He said it!) For Gewanter, the Lampoon is a veritable hotbed of little Adam Sandlers, or Benny Hills. Or something...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: The Gewanter Connection | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

Although Goetze was not even in the lead until after the first 200 meters, the record-breaking performance was no accident. In a race with a bunch of also-rans, Goetze had to find something to aim for. And, why not aim high...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Men's Track Captures GBC's, W. Thinclads Finish Third | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...back in her small 18th-floor office at the Los Angeles County courthouse, munching on celery (she does not eat dinner), smoking Dunhills and scribbling furiously on a white legal pad. Clark, deputy district attorney Christopher Darden and the six other lawyers working on the case--along with a bunch of cops who constantly drop by to visit Clark and offer help and moral support--ordered in pizza or Chinese food as the team scrambled to right the prosecutorial ship. ``I don't believe the defense can produce everything they say they can,'' says Darden. ``I can tell you that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL: DID HE OR DIDN'T HE? | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...said--i.e. "fucking cunts." If the reporters in question had been male, there would have been no generalistic words that were simply nasty to say (leaving out race-based slurs, of course). With a few words, a matter of control got turned into a matter of gender, among a bunch of liberal idealists who work hard to find gender-neutral synonyms for "gunman...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Notes From Experience | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

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