Word: outness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Are chopped-up celebrities worth more than whole regular people? You betcha. Following reports that callipygian singer/actress Jennifer Lopez insured her bodacious back end for a tidy $300,000,000 (and her entire body for $1 billion), we dug up other personalities who took out similar policies. Below, the world...
A front-page story in the New York Times last week pointed out that candidates opposing Bush seem intent on implying that he doesn't have wattage sufficient for the job. This is difficult to combat gracefully. By joking about his own temper, John McCain not only helped defuse the...
At least it has seemed so until now. One of the New Republic pieces, by Jonathan Chait, argued that, partly because voters seem to be in a mood to prize personal authenticity over ideas, candidates see some advantage in presenting themselves as, if not flat-out stupid, at least aggressively...
I'd love to see a well-edited version of my childhood. Unfortunately, I was born before the digital camcorder, and the choice bits of my family history are buried in hours of old VHS tapes stacked on my mother's shelf. Nobody wants to fast-forward through 10 minutes...
DON'T BE A TATTLETALE? Although the U.S. crime rate is declining, a new Justice Department study offers some major caveats: many crimes are never reported to any authority, and violent crimes against juveniles are reported less often than those against adults (44% vs. 55%). Sexual assaults and thefts are...