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...Giddins emphasizes the appeal of Crosby's masculine singing style, but the maleness was understated, like everything else about him, and it certainly didn't explode into eroticism. One could write long analyses of his personality (like this one) and never mention the word sex. The movies tried to make his aloofness part of his attractiveness. In "We're Not Dressing," "Rhythm on the Range" and "Rhythm on the River" his best friends are a bear, a bull and a boat. The women had the challenge of getting him interested, not just in women, but in the higher form...
...meant he sat through a lot more of the Crosby films than I could manage (and more of each film, I'll warrant: some of the '30s musicals almost demand fast-forwarding through the comedy specialties by Burns and Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye and others too grating to mention). Giddins is attentive and generous to Crosby's films, finding saving graces, vagrant epiphanies or sociological sassiness in each. He is also knowledgeable about the movie milieu, offering paragraph-long portraits of dozens of Bing's coworkers. The book ends with "Road to Singapore," and one avidly awaits his consideration...
Undergraduates should know when to call a spade a spade--especially because most professors and teaching fellows are not doing it for us. It makes a mockery of our institution and our diplomas, not to mention the dogged efforts of those students who devote themselves wholly to academics, that so many of us supposedly perform so well. We made the choice to attend Harvard, and once here, we make the choice how to spend our time and direct our efforts. And if our goal is to preserve the academic integrity of this institution, which has made Harvard such a respectable...
...surprising coming from hippie ice-cream magnate Ben Cohen, or even the politically liberal George Soros. But there are two Rockefellers on the list as well - philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr., former chairman of Rockefeller & Company, and Steven C. Rockefeller, chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Not to mention Agnes Gund, a philanthropist whose family owns stakes in many companies. Warren Buffett, the zillionaire investor who's newly revered these days for weathering the tech bubble-bust with his zillions intact, didn't sign - but only because the petition didn't go far enough...
...indicate, did not follow usual channels. In testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. pardon attorney Roger Adams says when the White House sent over Rich's name for pardon consideration - only a few hours before the President was due to leave office - there was never any mention of Rich being a fugitive. There is also suspicion that donations made to Clinton campaigns and to the Clinton presidential library by Rich's ex-wife, Denise, could be a quid pro quo for the pardon...