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...reasons for the breakup, most of which basically blame Mills, who had a rough childhood before becoming a topless model and catwalk star and who lost her left leg in 1993 after being struck by a police motorcycle. She has been called a gold-digger;unstable; a publicity hog; jealous of his fame; she supposedly upbraided him about his style and his marijuana smoking; she won't tour with him; his children by his beloved first wife Linda can't stand her. McCartney, 64 next month, rushed to Heather's defense. "In reading the media reports, I would urge people...
...editors: I strongly disagree with editors’ comments (“One Week Later,” April 28) that anyone associated with Harvard could or would take any smug, jealous satisfaction in the downfall of Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan caused by her apparent plagiarism in her recently released “chick-lit” novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.” Nor is there any xenophobia at work here. Anyone associated with Harvard must be appalled that Harvard’s name came to be associated...
...whom they could illicitly purchase a couple pills to cope with that painful all-nighter. Adderall provides young people with an amphetamine-like stimulant that can improve focus and mask symptoms of fatigue, providing an unfair advantage on exams far beyond what caffeine offers. I, for one, become very jealous of my Adderall abusing peers when I attempt to take an exam exhausted and bleary eyed, having not slept for 24 hours. Aside from being unfair, it can also, like steroids, pose health problems to those that use it. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recently voted in favor...
...many Western minds, the Kurdish-dominated, mountainous northern part of Iraq is an island of relative stability amidst the chaos and bloodshed that wreak havoc in the rest of the country. In fact, with the Kurds boxed in on all sides by jealous and often unfriendly neighbors, that image has always been a bit misguided. But lately the sectarian tensions that surround the Kurdish enclave have begun to make their presence felt more strongly, threatening not just the Kurds' way of life but U.S. hopes for bringing some measure of peace and stability to all of Iraq...
...argue it was not doing its job by uncovering the program.Others argue that while The Crimson has a right to publish the story, it smacks more of tabloid journalism and is not serious news that merits space in the paper. It only makes us come across as petty and jealous, they say. But what these critics must remember is that Viswanathan is a public figure, and her book is a work publicly available to everyone. Five hundred thousand dollars is a serious amount of money, and plagiarism is an even more serious offense. With the press she received...