Word: langs
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...although Romance Lang and Lit students seemed particularly impressed by their own sense of fashion, other departments are not about to let their "Best Dressed" reputation go unchallenged...
...magazine's relaunch may be Steinem's last chance to save the pioneering monthly that she helped start in 1972. Before it was sold last fall to publisher Dale Lang, Ms. was losing $150,000 a month, and circulation has since dropped from 550,000 to under...
Country singer k.d. lang may sound like a cowgal, but she doesn't think like one. In a series of TV spots to be aired in the fall, the Grammy winner takes aim at the very lifeblood of cattle country. "If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch," says lang as part of a "Meat Stinks" campaign launched by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a group that opposes most uses of animals other than for companionship...
...Word of lang's message is causing indigestion in the beef belt. Some radio stations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska have struck her songs from their playlists. "This is agriculture country," says Ken Kujawa, program director at KRES-FM in Moberly, Mo. "We don't care if k.d. lang is a vegetarian, but when she says 'Meat stinks,' that hurts everyone who lives in this area." Other singing vegetarians, notably Paul McCartney, have spoken out in lang's defense...
...illustrious list of speakers included Defense Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement, Culture Minister Jack Lang and National Assembly President Laurent Fabius. But the French public seemed more than a little blase: only about 30 people showed up last week for a political colloquium on the theme of progress. Toward the end of the second day, however, the room was unaccountably filled with spectators, and the applauding throng seemed to have saved the ruling Socialists from a public relations disaster. But relief turned to embarrassment when it was learned that more than 100 members of the crowd had been paid $63 each...