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Director of Faculty Development at Harvard Medical School Dr. Janet P. Hafler, who recently donated $500 to the Kerry campaign, said she contributed to Kerry because she thinks “he’s an outstanding candidate.” Harvard employees, she said, tend to support Kerry because they prefer his platform to Bush?...
...Penalty on the Play The exposure of Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl halftime musical show [Feb. 16] just proved that she is a good sister and loves her brother very much. She has succeeded in taking the entertainment headlines from Michael, giving him a break. Theresa Ubalde Las Pi?as, the Philippines...
Hogan, the CEO of Clear Channel Communications, discovered that Howard Stern can be crude. Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio company, has been making millions off of Stern’s antics for years. Unfortunately for Stern, after Janet Jackson’s bare breast shocked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) into enforcing a new code of decency on the airwaves—clearly a priority for the country right now—Hogan discovered Stern’s curious style and decided the show wasn’t appropriate for radio. Citing its desire to protect...
...very close to the bone. In this campaign we have already been buffeted by exceedingly powerful social and political images--men kissing other men on the steps of San Francisco's city hall, Saddam being pulled from a hole, John Kerry hugging a man he saved in Vietnam, Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl, George W. Bush prancing prematurely in his flight suit, Howard Dean screaming, Bush bringing turkey to the troops. The chaotic rush of images--and the President's constant invocation of incendiary words like war and evil--suggests a portentous, emotional year...
...real question here is a matter of proportion, the tendency of lurid cultural issues to crowd out the more important stuff. Even Iraq has settled into the dim middle distance. Few images from the war are as startling--as "spontaneous"--as Justin Timberlake's ripping Janet Jackson's bodice. The violence of combat is sanitized into banality by squeamish editors. And there are no compelling images to convey the absence of weapons of mass destruction or how difficult it will be for an American Secretary of State to bring a credible argument for war to the United Nations anytime soon...