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...more or less acceptable, even if that should not be the case in the United States. It has no place in French life and history, and outlawing the burka might well have been one of the very few items of public policy on which Robespierre and Marie-Antoinette, or Joan of Arc and the Marquis de Sade, would have readily agreed...

Author: By Patrice L. R. Higonnet | Title: Burka in the French and American Minds | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...long run, this name dropping convention is frustrating because overall only about one of every three references are immediately identifiable by a modern audience. Here are just a few from one page: Stephen Boyd, Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Natalie Wood, Frank Powell, D.W. Griffith, Joan Leslie, Tallulah Bankhead, H.B. Warner, Max Steiner, and Louise Brooks...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Palahniuk Goes for Shock, Ends Up with Shlock | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...it’s not that a woman has never hosted a late-night network talk show: “The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers” aired for less than one year, premiering in the fall of 1986. Since 1983, Rivers had served as Johnny Carson’s permanent guest host, a fairly major coup in and of itself. But when Rivers learned she wasn’t one of the frontrunners under consideration for the “Tonight Show” spot if Carson were to step down, she was furious...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Talk Show Hosts Face Comedic Challenges | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...came here to show my displeasure with the Tea Party movement, which is basically racist,” said Joan Quigley, a resident of Stoughton, Mass...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman | Title: Palin Brings the Tea Party to Boston | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...Republican votes to win re-election, and his voting record up until health care had been 90% in line with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's. "I voted for him last time, but if he'd voted for this health care boondoggle, I'd have switched to someone else," Joan Grimm, 79, a retired office manager and lifelong Republican, says in between bingo games. (See more about health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Care and the Democrat Who Voted No | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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