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...women may enjoy getting dressed up and claim that we try to look beautiful “for ourselves.” But this enjoyment has an unpleasant corollary. Bad hair or a flawed outfit can poison our delight at any given moment in a way that our male friends never have to fear. Perhaps it is not, in fact, a solid hour and a half of displeasure, but 90 individual minutes of self-doubt that prevent us from enjoying ourselves fully...
...because Ahmadinejad is the mouthpiece for the mullahs, who hold the real power in Iran. They hide behind him, sending him out in the world to do their dirty work, just as they send IEDs to Iraq to kill our soldiers. Ahmadinejad is the symbol of the very real poison emanating from Tehran. Symbols can be powerful and consequential and must be confronted. Leonard Schwartzburd, Berkeley, California...
...summer concert season of 2007 swept America back into the 1980s as scores of hard rock/metal bands from that decade began touring again, drawing large crowds, new, young fans, and solid revenues 25 years after first emerging. Who toured? Tesla, Dokken, Great White, Winger, Warrant, Queensryche, Poison, Ratt, Vince Neil, Firehouse, Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, L.A. Guns, White Lion, Skid Row, and Black Sabbath. "Despite the fact that it's two decades later, people still like to bang their heads, raise their fists, and have some fun," says Jeff Albright, president of the Albright Entertainment Group and publicist for numerous...
...some cases the crowds and revenues have rivaled those of the 1980s. Ratt and Poison just wrapped up a long, large-venue summer tour where they played regularly before 8,000 to 10,000 fans. Ratt lead singer Pearcy says he noticed an emerging younger fan base of teenagers and twenty-somethings who were born years after Ratt multi-platinum Out of the Cellar album released in 1984. "It has been a gradual buildup again. It's rock and roll - colorful, dangerous, exciting," Pearcy said...
International students make it damned near impossible to drink from the fount of the American dream without choking. They provoke jealously with their sexy accents, impeccable fashion, and disproportionate good looks. They poison classroom discussions by making cheeky references to the fact that they aren’t American and steal accolades from gullible teaching fellows on account of their “unique perspective” and, even more nauseating, that they’ve “overcome adversity.” (Sure, Ghana is a developing country. But so is Louisiana...