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...Best Equal-Opportunity Offenders Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, who achieved the impossible -- lowering the moral tone of a Friars' roast -- when the Cheers star, in blackface, paid an epochally crude tribute to Whoopi. She later vexed the Anti-Defamation League with her published recipe for ''Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken...
...blogs. Three days after the party, the story was on Meet the Press. Four days afterward, Lott made an official apology. After two weeks, Lott was out as Senate majority leader, and blogs had drawn their first blood. Web journalists like Matt Drudge (drudgereport.com) had already demonstrated a certain crude effectiveness--witness l'affaire Lewinsky--but this was something different: bloggers were offering reasoned, forceful arguments that carried weight with the powers that...
...making his own. Now in Lionel, dress codes have been relaxed, but Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 still designs and produces his own line of high-fashion neckties. In 2003, Shemtov spotted a light blue bandanna in his bedroom and decided to sew it into a crude but striking skinny tie. A novice at sewing, he sealed his loose stitches with iron-on name-tags leftover from camp. “So it said BaruchShemtovBaruchShemtovBaruchShemtov all the way up and down the back of the ties,” he says with a smile. “Everyone...
...shortage. But we also need to tackle problems on the demand side. Developing countries such as India and China demand vast quantities of oil, but they don't have a lot of energy-saving technology and aren't taking concrete steps to promote energy conservation. Our sources of crude oil are not everlasting. Governments must do their best to educate their people about the need to save energy. Citizens must play a part in energy conservation in their daily lives, or oil prices will not come down. Kenny Tan Singapore...
Beyond that, the supply of crude is not unlimited. Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the coast of Florida for drilling, which congressional Republicans have been pushing for, is a relatively short-term fix. And the more oil that is removed, the more expensive the cost of extracting the remaining oil becomes. At some point--possibly as early as 2010--production will therefore reach a peak, though not necessarily a sharp one, and then gradually start to decline. "The problem," says Simmons, "is that the global economy and the U.S. economy are structured on the assumption that...