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Marriage tattoos, like vows, are not to be taken lightly, lest they outlive the unions they celebrate. Consider those worn on the ring fingers of rocker TOMMY LEE and his pneumatic spouse PAMELA ANDERSON. The Baywatch staple is divorcing the man she wed on a beach 21 months ago, after a relationship that had stood the test of five days' time. Their marriage produced one son Brandon and a slew of photographs of the happy couple kissing. The two had recently been in court trying to stop distribution of a video of their more intimate activities, which they...
...want to downsize government, not dismantle it." He even tried to get some of Gingrich's agenda through the Senate but found himself stymied by Democrats at every turn. Dole knew a lot of Senate Republicans distrusted the Gingrich agenda, but he couldn't say that in public lest Gramm accuse him of being the M word--a moderate. But by the fall, Dole sensed people rejecting the Contract and its creator. He could feel it, hear it from everyday folks. This was a new problem: if people were turning against the Contract, against Gingrich, against the G.O.P., they could...
...chairs of the departments became nervous lest too many of their colleagues went to half-time," he said after the meeting, recalling dis- cussions with department heads three years...
...adolescence and notably in our schools, the voices of women are silenced, and men are taught that they are entitled to power and the validation of their opinions. But the perpetrators are not men. Rather, the responsible party is the system to which both women and men ascribe. And lest we forget, men are also victims of this rape culture. While women are increasingly empowered to report rapes and sexual assaults (according to the National Women's Study, 16 percent of rapes are reported), boys and men who are abused are rarely comfortable enough to report sexual abuse...
...modest "laundry stipend" of $15. Nowadays they don't even get that, though television-rights fees have increased exponentially, and shoe money has pushed the income of some coaches into seven figures. According to NCAA rules, a player can't hold a part-time job during the school year, lest he neglect his studies, or worse, be given a no-show, easy-money position. The current executive director of the NCAA, Cedric Dempsey, has appointed a special committee to explore ways to help the welfare of student athletes...