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...some youths. "Dr. Drew has some excellent advice," says Keri, an eighth-grader in Denver. "It's not just sex, it's real life. Society makes you say you've got to look at shows like Baywatch, but I'm sick of blond bimbos. They're so fake. Screenwriters ought to get a life...
...executive privilege, it was no surprise that the White House jumped on Ken Starr's admission that his office leaked information to reporters. "This is a bombshell," senior Clinton advisor Rahm Emmanuel said Sunday of Steve Brill's interview with Starr. Without a trace of irony, Emmanuel added: "There ought to be an investigation." The interview appears in the inaugural issue of Brill's Content magazine...
...subsidies; he went to Florida to advocate dismantling Social Security; in Tennessee he said he wanted to sell off the Tennessee Valley Authority. For such a man, it was not so long a leap to opine 20 years later, during the ascendancy of the religious right, "Every good Christian ought to kick Jerry Falwell in the ass." Throughout Goldwater's career runs the spirit of Uncle Morris, leaning forward and telling the busybodies, as his nephew would put it, to cut the crap. In his curmudgeon's heart, Barry Goldwater knew he was right, and more often than...
...first-years take their meals in a beautifully reworked Annenberg Hall. And the Union has become the Barker Center for Humanities, housing 12 different University departments and centers.... Kudos go to the University and its architects, who did a fine job balancing the old and the new.... Harvard ought to continue renovating and revamping its other older buildings with a similar eye to that used in the Barker Center construction. The University's beautiful old campus will benefit from future updates which incorporate the spirit of the past into a productive future. Sept...
...what you think your parents or friends think you ought to do. I've made that mistake," Weld said. "Do what you want to do when you want...