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...find ways to understand each other." Lamar Alexander tried to have it both ways: "I believe it is important that we support our system of trial by jury, even if we have great doubts about an individual result." Jesse Jackson made a curious suggestion, urging Simpson to turn his fame "to a positive use" by launching a drive against domestic violence...
Despite his success and newfound facebook fame, Haut says his glory days are over: “I see about 1,100 facebook group leavings in my future.” When this magazine went to press, his profile had slimmed down significantly. A photo of his, er, hindside remained, as did quotes from funnyman Douglas Adams. But all group memberships had disappeared...
...young and rich and famous and the crowd is screaming love at you, and if your overnight shift is taking the favors of some beautiful stranger waiting at the stage door - honestly, what do you have to mope about? The Beatles, in the first flush of their fame (when they wore matching suits), got it right. They played a song, the girls squealed, the boys smiled. Then the Rolling Stones came along and made sexual menace the new code of behavior. With Bob Dylan, nobody was a singer any more; now they were artists. And to create, artists have...
...impressively holds her own against an actor of De Niro’s caliber. It has clearly been good training playing against all those hunky-leading man types (Denzel Washington, Sean Penn, and soon Tom Cruise). De Niro, playing against the Travis Bickle-type that first catapulted him to fame, is very convincing as David, a soft-spoken psychologist...
...paying pacification money—in exchange for better town-gown relations—long before the former PILOT agreement was scheduled to run out. Harvard has long been a popular scapegoat for city officials. But in reality, Harvard is the primary reason for the city’s fame and consequent ability to attract technology companies and various other businesses (which all pay taxes themselves...