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...Wild Bunch...
...some men are actually seeking out women to play with. Simon Austin, the guitarist for Frente!, says, "My other bands had been just basically a bunch of guys playing guitars. I had a real desire to have a woman in Frente! to move the music in a new direction." Austin and Angie Hart hit it off as a writing team and now compose most of Frente!'s music. Hart believes that supermasculine high-volume rock has become boring. "We want to create songs that are as strong as something a loud rock band would do," she says, "but played quietly...
...into the latest catfight around this question, but with so much at stake, temptation overwhelms. It all started when Christina Hoff Sommers, a philosophy professor at Clark University, came out in June with a book called Who Stole Feminism? Its point is that feminism has been derailed by a bunch of neurotic, self-indulgent intellectuals who have a direct personal interest in grossly overstating the woes of womankind. In women's studies classes, young women are indoctrinated to believe they are downtrodden when they are actually, in Sommers' words, "free creatures...
...utilize any precious moments when his companion might be away from the table. Magnificently rumpled, intensely convivial though a teetotaler, flamboyant ("He always spoke ex cathedra," says a senior editor), Bill was a vivid personality in an era when journalists tend to be a bland, earnest bunch. Everything he did was distinguished by a first-class intellect, which showed in his polished prose, his ability to organize complex material, and his ceaseless flow of ideas. But from his newspaper days he retained, along with two Pulitzer Prizes, a bracing professionalism. He never turned down an assignment, and he attacked even...
...books and magazines often seems long- winded and phony. Unless they adjust to the new medium, professional writers can come across as self-important blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers. Says Brock Meeks, a Washington-based reporter who covers the online culture for Communications Daily: "There are a bunch of hacker kids out there who can string a sentence together better than their blue- blooded peers simply because they log on all the time and write, write, write...