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...means should this editorial be construed as knee-jerk council bashing. It is, in fact, imperative for the council that Prabhu come forward and own up to her actions. Only then will the council be able to put this sorry episode behind...
Both analysts criticized Perot, and Beckelprofessed a personal dislike for the Texasbillionaire, calling him "that jug-eared jerk fromDallas" and "the biggest fraud who ever lived...
What make WASP maleness so different? The knee-jerk liberal answer, white male hegemony, doesn't explain it all. Note that the women complaining about the Boston clubs weren't saying the men excluded them from the power networks; in fact, many women said, the men were quite welcoming. No, it was the culture that turned them off, not because it was sexist like the Tailhook Convention but simply because it reminded them of men bonding together without women...
...there was never any time. However, Matt said the role has had no negative effects on how friends view him--"they know that's not me." When people encounter him on the street to commend him on his job in the film, he always says, "I was a real jerk, huh?" in order to communicate to people that he is not at all like his screen personality...
...Miller's own story, he began at the beginning--as a queer "spermlet" swimming upstream in search of an egg to fertilizer. Then, having in a sense created himself, he passed through an infancy surrounded by "mini dykes and fags" to puberty, when he "tried to use Noxzema to jerk off," to AIDS and the election of Ronald Reagan. By this time, he was spitting out his words in an angry spray of saliva that drifted over the first few rows of the audience...