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...said gay white men may engage in a"playground fantasy" based on stereotypes of Asiansexuality. Lim-hing, however, said women are lessprone to requesting partners from specific ethnicgroups...
Smiley writes of what she knows, and she seems to know just about everything-the incubation of eggs, Cheez-It diets, tenure committees. Most of all, she knows men, women and the distance between them. Most men, she notes, are "competent in groups that mimicked the playground, incompetent in groups that mimicked the family"; many of her women assess love interests in terms of self-interest. Much of the fun of the book, in fact, comes from the way in which a canny student of human nature trains her eye on people who know nothing about any kind of nature...
...life has been, in patches, as rough and messy as many of the scenes in his books. His parents divorced when he was six, and he shuttled between them for four years until his mother, a registered nurse and an alcoholic, was found murdered near a high school playground in a small town east of Los Angeles. "At the time, my bereavement was ambiguous," Ellroy says. "My mother was a volatile woman, and I thought she'd been mean to me. It took me years to understand that thinking of her in that way did us both a disservice...
...Fuhrman coolly parried defense attorney F. Lee Bailey's taunting cross-examination. Fuhrman repeatedly denied having made racist statements; he also denied suggestions that he planted a bloody glove on Simpson's estate to frame the football hero. The high stakes prompted Bailey and prosecutor Marcia Clark to trade playground-ready insults, leading Judge Lance Ito to ask for an apology from each attorney and to order them not to "engage in gratuitous personal attacks upon each other." At week's end yet another juror was dismissed, the fifth so far. Reports said the man, of mixed racial background...
...board service, he found he'd been flamed to a crisp. ``Misleading,'' complained one member. ``Excrement!'' cried another. He got so much electronic hate mail that he had to turn off his mailbox. ``The impression I got was, `We don't want snoopy reporters in here. This is our playground, and you're not welcome,' '' Bauman said later. Bauman was hardly the first journalist to get beaten up in cyberspace. Every reporter who ventures there soon learns how prickly its inhabitants can be about stories that reinforce the stereotype of the Net as a place where only spies, hackers...