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Guerrilla marketing is to be expected from MARK CUBAN. Last year, in a bid for publicity, the Dallas Mavericks' owner not only hired DENNIS RODMAN but offered him free lodging at his own guesthouse. But surely the NBA didn't anticipate that Cuban would be downright ecstatic about the $250,000 fine officials imposed for his antics during the Mavs' loss to Detroit last week. "I think it's great," said Cuban, the billionaire co-founder of Broadcast.com who bought the team last year. Cuban was reprimanded for a public scolding of game referees. "There is no way we could...
...Hollywood lost one of its most scorned pariahs as well as one of the few outrageous personalities left in an increasingly corporate, risk-adverse industry. A film producer who made history as the first woman ever to win a best picture Oscar (for The Sting in 1973), she became downright infamous after her 1991 autobiography, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, mercilessly blasted the biggest names in showbiz. A typically scathing tidbit: describing how Warren Beatty had asked if she and her pre-teen daughter would join him in a threesome, Phillips allegedly replied, "Warren...
...Crimson states that Ashcroft is opposed to affirmative action; so are a great deal of Americans, but that does not preclude them from holding a law-enforcement office. The Crimson cites a lawsuit against the National Organization of Women as proof that Ashcroft will not promote equality; this is downright ridiculous...
Blanket point boosts for minorities ignore the reality that every individual has a different experience. I would think that the black student from a poor, inner-city neighborhood would have a better claim of injustice than the black student from an affluent suburb. It seems downright insulting to assume both of these candidates share an identical, uniquely "black" perspective, simply because of their skin color...
...asked for. Gore's lawyers simply wanted a recount of 14,000 disputed ballots in two Democratic counties; the state supreme court ordered a recount of undervotes in 64 of 67 counties (three had already completed recounts). Earlier in the process, such a sweeping ruling might have seemed downright Solomonic--counting the undervotes everywhere removed the built-in Gore advantage of counting just three Democratic strongholds. But after almost five weeks of wrangling, with the hunger for finality beginning to crowd out the desire for fairness in all but the most devoted Gore partisans, the plan mostly seemed mind boggling...