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...advantage of being the first victim in the country to use my name in the case of a date rape. I didn’t know what bad things would happen—how could anyone disagree with me? I didn’t realize how the media could portray you badly. I was usually picketing the frat. We handed out fliers that said, “last weekend someone was raped at this house, do you really want to go party there...
...seems the famously taciturn GRETA GARBO could at times be quite communicative. This week the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia will unveil a collection of letters written by the Swedish sylph that have sat unread since 1960 and may portray a side of the actress never seen in her movies. The letters were given to the museum by their recipient--poet, playwright and socialite MERCEDES DE ACOSTA, who is perhaps best known for her purported affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Isadora Duncan. The correspondence is believed to suggest that Garbo also ranked among her conquests. De Acosta stipulated that...
Medwed tries to portray the new American family, with all of its connotations and inconsistencies, but in the end offers nothing more than a superficial, unsatisfying story, lacking in realism. Every "crisis" and action is sugar-coated. Consider, for example, Sammy's response to the news of his parents' divorce: "Mom, most of the kids I know have families that divide and multiply like-well-like the amoebas we study in biology. It's pretty common. Plus, we've been analyzing family structure in Intro to Psych." Who said that classes weren't applicable to real life? Sammy Lewis...
...Scaling Walk, which surrounds the sphere just below its equator. As you begin your circumnavigation, the sphere becomes a reference for the relative sizes of objects in the universe. At one point, it represents the sun, while smaller spheres, from a few inches to a few feet across, portray the eight planets. (Not nine. Many astronomers, Tyson explains, now believe that Pluto is not a full-fledged planet.) A bit farther along, the sphere represents a molecule that dwarfs the footwide atom mounted to the railing...
...startlingly disingenuous coming from an establishment candidate, especially as his proposed ban on soft money would place few limits on the contributions of wealthy individuals. Bush's website now spouts the phrase "reformer with results" so many times that it occasionally forgets to include verbs in its zeal to portray Bush as an outsider: "Of the major candidates, the only one who does not have a D.C. ZIP code." (Perhaps this technique is, in some way, a subtle reflection of the candidate...