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...much of an impact do you feel the 2007 Giants-Dolphins game in London had on European fans and do you think the popularity of American football in Europe will equal that of what it is in the U.S.? - Geoffrey Wowk, New York City
ADMITTED. AL GOLDSTEIN, 57, publisher; to the National Press Club; in Washington. By being allowed to join the ultimate Establishment journalists organization, the puckish creator of the bluntly pornographic Screw magazine has been put on an equal footing with reporters and editors from the New York Times, the Washington Post and other more conventional publications. The move is deeply offensive to some club members, but Goldstein's papers were in order, and he had found the required two sponsors...
...much as mentioned the master's contemporary, Tilman Riemenschneider. It is true that the latter hailed not from Nuremberg but from nearby Wurzburg, yet all the qualities Hughes admires in Stoss's work can be found in Riemenschneider's extraordinary wood carvings. Riemenschneider was Stoss's equal, to say the least. John Rewald New York City Your review says Veit Stoss was not well known outside Germany. No one, however, could graduate from a Hungarian high school 40 years ago if, when presented with a slide of a wood carving, he could not distinguish whether it was a Stoss...
...grandmother Cora was a college graduate--uncommon even among white women of her time. Her grandfather Edwin was an alternate delegate to the 1884 Republican Convention, as well as a teacher, journalist and entrepreneur. He spelled out the code of the emerging black bourgeoisie: ''To be the full equal of the white man, there are two particular things we need--education and wealth.'' For most of the Hornes, Buckley says, ''racism seemed the only bad fairy at the family party. One could imagine that if it were not for race . . . Edwin might have been President of the United States...
...statement that "If you don't like abortion, you should love contraception" was met with enthusiastic applause, as did her support of net neutrality - equal, unrestricted access to the Internet - an issue close to the hearts of the bloggers. Other remarks, however, garnered mixed, if not outright hostile, reactions. One audience member screamed for her to "answer the question" about Democratic action on the FISA bill. She ignored that interruption. Others drew hushes from the crowd...