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...also uncomfortable with questions about her private life, though it's clear that long before playing Connie, Lane had firsthand knowledge of complicated women. Her grandmother was a Pentecostal preacher; her mother is a former Playboy Bunny. Lane herself is a single mom. (She and her ex-husband, actor Christopher Lambert, have an 8-year-old daughter.) She has absolutely no comment on her current boyfriend, actor Josh Brolin: "Who cares who I'm dating? I'm not Madonna." She says nothing about him but blushes at the mention of his name. "Doesn't that say it all?" she asks...
...Phra Charoen Atipalow has experienced this firsthand. Collared near Bangkok's Chatuchak market on suspicion of being a bogus monk, he is interrogated at a nearby temple by its abbot, Phra Thai Thammarat, and Phra Khrusri Pattanakhun, chief of the monk police. He insists he's a real monk from Chaiyaphum. But when Phra Khrusri calls a few of Charoen's supposed temples, no one will vouch for him. Rather than turn him over to the two waiting policemen, the abbot decides Charoen should be disrobed and expelled for improper begging. The legal penalty is only $4.50 for the first...
Bridges said her firsthand confrontation with racism as a child continues to shape her opinions about racism in America today. She said she hoped audience members, many of whom were young children, would learn from her story...
Let’s face it, the Ivy League is where sex goes to die. Yet, perhaps, if we had some rudimentary understanding of our little sexual universe, maybe more—some?—love could be had by all. I learned this firsthand recently, as I sat down for a face-to-face chat with sophomore Natalie Krinsky, the woman behind the semi-phenomenon that is “Sex and the (Elm) City,” the Yale Daily News’ weekly sex column. Increasingly, Krinsky’s column—which began running...
...union, the Service Employees International Union Local 254, and the Harvard administration began on Jan. 22, eight months ahead of schedule, due to the agreement that resulted from last spring’s student sit-in in Mass. Hall. During the last three weeks, we have witnessed these negotiations firsthand, and we have been extremely disappointed. The process has not been the civil exchange between honest and respectful partners that Summers and the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies have implied it is in their repeated exaltations of the collective bargaining process. Rather, if you go the Sheraton Commander...