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Gentlemen might prefer blondes, but ladies ought to love The Real Blonde,for this is a woman's movie. In the midst of its other socially astute criticism, the film offers up a vehement attack on a woman's worst enemy: the uninvited comment...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: A Landscape of Harassment | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

When Cotton implies that the University of Texas Law School ought to admit only "academically competitive" whites, he is really saying that blacks and Mexican-Americans should be denied the social power that comes with a legal education. And when Cotton writes that the taxfinanced state school should adjust its admissions criteria to exclude minorities, he means that the school should show no social or political responsibility to the large black and Hispanic communities that help to support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Equalizing Power Balance At Heart of Affirmative Action | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...Julie Moir Messervy. The films, to be shown on PBS starting in early April (following last month's release on CD of Ma's new recordings of the suites on Sony Classical), are only fitfully successful--stunts, one could argue. But their very ambition, their willingness to court failure, ought to be prized in a classical-music world obsessed with dwindling audiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo-Yo Ma's Suite Life? | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...lawyers and media people blame the function of a special prosecutor for the current presidential scandal [CLINTON'S CRISES, March 2]. The special prosecutor's role is to determine the truth, with no interference from any person, not even the President. Elected representatives, Bill Clinton and every other American ought to proclaim, "Regardless of the outcome, we have the best system in the world." DON BRANDON Sherwood Park, Alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1998 | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...whether the Playboy Channel's programming is decent. Playboy lawyer ROBERT CORN-REVERE shipped a crate of videotapes to the FCC for review but never got a reply. "Nothing was done with them. They're sitting in a box somewhere," says the FCC's MORGAN BROMAN. The agency ought to look soon. Last Friday Playboy and the government concluded a three-day trial in federal court in Delaware. They expect a decision by June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red-Light TV | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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