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...graduate of the College, he had stumbled upon the presentation on his way out of another event. “This wouldn’t have happened 10 to 15 years ago,” he said, referring to the frank nature of the presentation. “Except for ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’—we would steal our girlfriends’ copies.” Although she acknowledged the difficulty of getting people to attend a public event devoted to talking about sex, Lescroart said she considered the event a success...
...what I want and I'm not satisfied with it, then I'll just take the Senate seat myself" •Obama's instinct to distance self from •Obama's rumored first choice as his replacement is dismissed by because her campaign is "not willing to give me anything except appreciation. F--- them." •resentment of at being told to "suck it up" and give this "motherf---er the President-elect his senator. F--- him. For nothing? F--- him" •right to appoint senator of is said by to be "f---ing golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just...
...consequences of television “will be quite enormous and promise to intensify the impoverishment of aesthetic matter so drastically, that by tomorrow the thinly veiled identity of all industrial culture products can come triumphantly out into the open.” Yup, that sounds about right, except it’s Chan and Fey’s triumph, not the industry’s. And industry is still trying to figure out what happened...
...Chicago pol made good who was hoping to put old-fashioned Chicago politics in his rearview mirror. The criminal complaint produced no evidence that Obama or his aides have done anything wrong. Blagojevich was, in fact, recorded complaining that Obama's people were "not willing to give me anything except appreciation." Obama himself maintains that he never talked to Blagojevich about the Senate seat, and during the recent campaign, the two men kept their distance from each other...
...strong central government. It has been governed for thousands of years by local and regional tribal coalitions. The tribes have often been at one another's throats - a good part of the current "Taliban" uprising is nothing more than standard tribal rivalries juiced by Western arms and opium profits - except when foreigners have invaded the area, in which case the Afghans have united and slowly humiliated conquerors from Alexander the Great to the Soviets...