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TOFU QUEEN At the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas last week, Brandy DeJongh, the newly crowned Miss Rodeo America 2000, got smacked with a chocolate-tofu pie by Dawn Carr, a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA doesn't like rodeos...
...downside to the high-speed experience? Setting up a home network and fire wall involves considerable fiddling. I needed (and got) tech support from both 3Com and Network ICE. And naturally, within hours of finally getting my network and fire wall working, my cable modem crashed. I called Cablevision on Thursday at 7 a.m. to report it. The company said the earliest it could get someone to my house was Sunday. Some things never change...
...WOMEN'S USA SOCCER TEAM If Title IX needed a face to show how transforming women's sports can be, it got a team of them. Though the competition was limited and the games were a bit dull, this group got America excited about female athletes. These gals were fun, talented, likable and incredibly market savvy. Thousands of little girls are now denting their garage doors, telling themselves they are Julie Foudy. And best of all, so are little boys...
...Republic pieces, by Jonathan Chait, argued that, partly because voters seem to be in a mood to prize personal authenticity over ideas, candidates see some advantage in presenting themselves as, if not flat-out stupid, at least aggressively nonintellectual. It's true that when Bush first got into the race he joked a bit about his academic shortcomings in college, and when his Yale transcript was printed in the New Yorker, the impact on his campaign seemed so negligible that I was moved to write a couplet that went, "Obliviously on he sails/With marks not quite as good as Quayle...
...night after principal Frank DeAngelis lost part of his school to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, he got no sleep. In such bleak hours, a man takes account, and DeAngelis wasn't sure he liked the results. "I feel so guilty," he told Jon DeStefano not long after morning came. "I failed myself and my community." Besides being a close friend, DeStefano is president of the school board. Now DeAngelis asked him, "How can you ever trust me with your students again...