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...months since he has continued to pound away on that point, adding to it his criticism of her refusal to apologize for her Iraq war vote (Edwards long ago asked for forgiveness on that same vote) and her support last month of a resolution calling on President Bush to label as terrorists the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has also come out swinging on other policy matters - voicing his opposition this week to a bipartisan bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, which he says doesn't go far enough, as well as to the Peru Free Trade Agreement before Congress...
...blackmail, sex, drugs - and a member of the British royal family. On Oct. 28, the Royal Blackmail Plot was splashed across the morning newspapers in the U.K., setting Britons spluttering into their porridge. Two men, according to these front-page reports, had been arrested last month after asking for £ 50,000 (about $100,000) in return for a video purporting to show a royal aide taking cocaine. Some accounts suggested that the video showed the royal engaged in a gay sex act with the aide; in tamer versions, the aide was said to have made claims about...
...abdication of Edward VIII after he decided to marry the American divorcé Wallis Simpson. However, the last known blackmail case involving a member of the royal family was successfully hushed up for many years. In 1891, the Duke of Clarence, son to King Edward VII, paid £ 200 to secure indiscreet letters he had sent to a prostitute. The case came to light only five years ago when a letter to his lawyer was sold at auction...
...speech last Monday entitled “X-Underrated—Pornography and Popular Culture,” Pound Visiting Professor of Law Catherine A. MacKinnon stressed to her Barker Center audience of several dozen that pornography cannot exist separately from the mainstream. MacKinnon is a longtime social activist who has committed much of her career to advocating legislation to curb pornography and representing former porn actresses in suing for damages. In her speech Monday, MacKinnon went straight for shock tactics, suggesting that society is wrong to consider porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came...
...first one is always significant, we’re hoping it can give us some momentum and a little credibility as we start our journey here in the Ivy League.”Ben-Eze might be Harvard’s biggest recruit ever. The 6-foot-10, 230 pound native of Nigeria reportedly picked the Crimson over Marquette, Virginia, and Virginia Tech—three teams that reached the NCAA Tournament last year. ESPN.com ranks him as the 66th-best player in the class of 2008, and according to that website, is a skilled shooter, an excellent offensive rebounder...