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...commercials, whose content included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic. (The raciest ad I found in my old copy of Playboy was for satin bed sheets and pillowcases, "as used in the Imperial and Bridal Suites of the Conrad Hilton.") And lest you think there's something special about football that encourages vulgarity, USA Today last week had a front-page story on the troubles that colleges are having with cursing at basketball games. University of Maryland coach Gary Williams has been forced to appeal for more decorous behavior...
...Joseph Conrad and the set designers of Raiders of the Lost Ark ever curated a museum, the result might be something like Oxford's Pitt Rivers, tel: (44-1865) 270927. Founded in 1884 by Lieut. General Pitt Rivers-Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments-the Pitt Rivers Museum houses tens of thousands of anthropological artifacts in an atmosphere redolent with Victorian eccentricity. Wildly cluttered display cases and fading labels, handwritten in copperplate script, speak of the period's voraciously eclectic mania for collecting. In one spot there's a Tahitian mourner's costume, acquired during Captain Cook's second...
...Joseph Conrad and the set designers of Raiders of the Lost Ark ever curated a museum, the result might be something like Oxford's Pitt Rivers, tel: (44-1865) 270927. Founded in 1884 by Lieut. General Pitt Rivers - Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments - the Pitt Rivers Museum houses tens of thousands of anthropological artifacts in an atmosphere redolent with Victorian eccentricity...
Black Vs. Board Who has the right to sell Conrad Black's media empire: Lord Black, the majority shareholder, who is under fire for taking allegedly improper commissions, or the board of Hollinger International, the U.S. public firm that actually owns the newspapers, including Britain 's Daily Telegraph and the Chicago Sun-Times? That's the key question following Black's surprise deal last week to sell his holdings to the reclusive Barclay brothers for a bargain $466 million. Infuriated, Hollinger's board has told its investment bank, Lazard, to find other buyers. "The board believes it has the authority...
...countries. The memo was clearly a hardball negotiating tactic. Faced with this threat, France and Germany finally relented and agreed to forgive some of Iraq's debt. In the end, the U.S. will reconsider the policy on contracts in Iraq. Apparently, Elliott knows nothing of real-world negotiations. MORGAN CONRAD Montara, Calif...