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...stock answer is, from the last two and half year since I got to know him a bit is, it's really simple: you know him already. It's not like the so many public figures you meet who are really a different person. ...There's no jarring disconnect between the George Clooney that you expect to meet or the one you come to know through the media and the guy you end up working or drinking with or struggling with. It's the same guy. And that's pretty unusual...
Steger is a legendary polar explorer, the first person to make a dogsled trip to the North Pole, and winner of the National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award. He's at home in those frozen, hostile parts of the world that few of us will ever tread. But he's also a dedicated environmentalist who was early to ring the alarm bell on global warming, the effects of which he saw firsthand in his frequent polar expeditions, both in the Arctic and Antarctica. To help raise awareness of the damage climate change is wreaking on the polar regions, next month...
...than he provides answers to.In “Sellout,” Kennedy sets out to describe the various ways in which African Americans have been labeled sellouts in historical and contemporary contexts. Kennedy exposes the dynamics of traditional forms of race betrayal—including marrying a white person, passing, “acting white,” and opposing affirmative action—and, in doing so, shows that labeling someone a sellout to a community based on a scientific myth does damage to the social bonds of the black community. According to Kennedy, Black America...
...there for the art. First on the program was the World Famous *BOB*, a burlesque dancer whose legendary breasts have been featured in books, films, and television series. She warmed up with the story of her hapless career as a dominatrix, explaining that every time the person paying her screamed, she would drop the whip and ask them, “Are you okay?” Her comic timing was impeccable, and the audience couldn’t stop laughing. Then, suddenly, her clothes were gone and she was twirling the enormous tassles on her nipples. Impressive...
...dress like Blair Waldorf from “Gossip Girl.” I wore white tights and gigantic turban headbands with tie-neck blouses. It was amazing. I went to the Widener reading room every day. I listened to Prince. I read Perez Hilton like a normal person. My thesis advisor then told me that I had a penchant for “windy philosophizing.” After that, I sort of went into a freefall. There were extreme highs and frightening lows. I started listening to Miley Cyrus, then habitually wore a leopard print nightie...