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Women Appealing for Change sticks to a single issue: sexism. True, final clubs objectify women, allowing them into parties unconditionally but restricting them from membership and benefits. True, they are fodder for sexist comments and actions--recall the inflatable naked woman who was spotted last year on a final club door...
...Jewish-settled, Israeli-controlled West Bank would provide the necessary physical cushion to absorb the blow of any military thrust against Israel. He saw no irony in reassuring his audience that the West Bank settlements are valuable and truly livable, while simultaneously designating their inhabitants as mere cannon fodder. To use citizens in such a way is evidence of a very odd logic--an ad hoc obstructionism which offers no prospect of a decisive issue...
...grandparent surrogate) have won solid numbers, and Searching for Bobby Fischer (a boy and his pawn) may find fanciers. Enough kids are seeing the 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to make it Disney's top film of the summer. But given all the toddler fodder Hollywood produced, the Children's Crusade did not show up in force...
Among his battles, Scanlon has locked horns with Tonight show host Jay Leno, who considers lawyers prime fodder for his monologues. Scanlon claims Leno has "apologized" after the image consultant called to complain. But Leno won't admit to taking back any flak. When asked about the lawyer-boosting campaign, Leno chortled, "I can't say anything until I speak to my attorney! I mean, come on. We're not advocating violence or the overthrow of the judicial system, we're just telling silly jokes...
...course, few people, except Ralph Nader, go to Washington hoping to change it. Many think that their pilgrimage will be brief. Often they stay and become fodder for the press or are spat out in this place where, as the late Vincent Foster put it, "ruining people's life is considered sport...