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...though, it's worth noting that like most good science-fair projects, this one got some help from Mom and Dad. Emily Rosa, now 11, is smart and determined, and really did carry out the experiment, but she is not quite the naive child who saw through the emperor's new clothes. Her mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade, and her stepfather Larry Sarner is chairman of the National Therapeutic Touch Study Group, an anti-TT organization...
With such damning and incontrovertible evidence that affirmative action is in fact preferences and quotas, Graglia said last fall that the emperor had no clothes. He said "blacks and Mexican-Americans are not academically competitive with whites in selective institutions...
...issue is blunted here by the fact that the painting is treated as a joke from the start--and a dated one at that. It's the old wheeze about how abstract art appeals only to pretentious critics (and suckers like Serge), while ordinary folks see the emperor's new clothes...
...opening ceremonies of the Nagano Winter Games were as lyrical and spare as you might expect in a stadium shaped like a cherry blossom yet named, not memorably, the "Stadium for Opening and Closing Ceremonies." Helium doves fluttered prettily, Japan's Emperor and Empress clapped gamely for 40 minutes of parading athletes, and a large number of the contestants were dressed like secret policemen...
BRUSSELS: Much better than "flaming": Bill Gates, emperor of the information age, was laid low in Brussels today with a low-tech social leveler: a cream pie full in the face as Gates entered an ornate hall in Brussels for meetings with Belgian computer industry and government leaders. The clearly peeved Gates was quickly hustled to a side room for cleanup, but emerged no happier. "We regret the incident (but) will not press charges," said a spokesman for Microsoft's Belgian office...