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...Rumors about Mormonism continue to swirl on the ground in states like Iowa and South Carolina; earlier this year, an eight-page document titled "Mormons in Contemporary American Society: A Politically Dangerous Religion?" that referred to the founder of the Latter Day Saints as a "gold-digger" and compared him to the Muslim prophet Muhammed was mailed to conservative activists in South Carolina...
Today's Australians may be more sophisticated than last century's digger with his pockets full of gold dust, but at root the dotcom millionaires of the late 1990s are not so very different from their mining ancestors. The metaphor of all wealth production is gambling, and Australians are among the most shamefully obsessed gamblers in the world. We have 20 times as many "pokies"--poker machines--per person as Americans. Our styles of wealth production enforce the belief that superiority is luck and only luck: no moral lessons apply. The Puritan impulse toward social responsibility that created the American...
...floor has generated much of her success. This season, the sophomore leads the team with 5.02 digs per game after leading the team as a freshman with 4.44 digs per game. Kocurek was an All-Ivy League Honorable Mention pick in 2006 and won the “Best Digger Award” in this year’s American Volleyball Tournament. “Katherine’s our most consistent passer and highest digger,” said volleyball head coach Jennifer Weiss. “She plays with a lot of personality, and she?...
...understand everything. His depictions of the street life are vivid and even touching in the case of “Josephine.” Yet they still always seem real and raw: contrast “Greedy Bitches” with Kanye’s “Gold Digger...
...mouthing off about what Sturges called Topic A: sex. This liberated period featured dozens of sagas of tough broads on the make or on the skids. Three of the best are collected here. Mae Clarke plays a world-weary prostitute in Waterloo Bridge. Jean Harlow is an unrepentant gold digger, leaving broken hearts and two corpses in her wake, in Red Headed Woman. And the great Stanwyck, as sharp as a slap, sleeps her way to the top in the all-time sleazerrific Baby Face, now available in the original version, which was too hot for the censors...