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...Lepon said. Bisexuality Weeks began on Sunday night, with a screening of the 1995 film, “French Twist.” Ochs said it was important to spread information about bisexuality because bisexuals face unique prejudices. “Bisexuality does not get its fair share of attention when it’s included as one of the letters in the chorus,” Ochs said in an interview before her workshop. “I can’t even tell you the number of people who have come up to me and said...
Butterscotch, a life-size plush pony from Hasbro that nuzzles and eats carrots, debuts at the 2006 American International Toy Fair in New York City along with hundreds of other high-tech amusements, including a tweenage doll with artificial intelligence, an interactive easel and a musical robot fueled by MP3s. Here's a look at some of the most promising playthings hitting the show floor this week--and store shelves across the U.S. later this year. --By Maryanne Murray Buechner...
...There is no set policy on when students can take their midterms. It is up to the individual professor,” Wolcowitz said. Richard N. Cooper, Boas professor of international economics, who teaches Economics 1530, “International Monetary Economics,” said that to be fair he would not change the date of the midterm. “I think that horizontal equity in a class of this size is extremely important,” Cooper, who teaches the class of 28 said. “Either I would have to give the same exam...
...vice president has indicated that he'll never seek office again, the birdshot episode is likely to be used by comics as a metaphor for a trigger-happy vice president who rushed us in to war-and can't shoot straight. These kinds of metaphors aren't usually fair. Gerald Ford was a talented athlete who was a star football player at the University of Michigan and coached at Yale. Still, he was lampooned as a clod because he tripped down a flight of airline stairs in Austria and was filmed falling while skiing in Vail, Colorado. Those images...
...Angeles Times yanked a 1972 Trudeau strip about a diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: [the poor Los Angeles neighborhood of] Watts ... Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That's guilty, guilty, guilty!" Trudeau later explained that he was only trying to parody the hysteria of Nixon foes, but dozens of papers excised the panels...