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...them are. Not so many as the horror stories have it. They're growing up in a far more sexualized culture than I did. I had Chuck Woolery on Love Connection asking people on TV the details of their date, and they may or may not recount a goodnight kiss. On today's dating shows, they have lap dances. They have hot-tub sessions. Middle schoolers are not so much having oral sex, but they love to discuss...
...stagecraft. But even before Schwarzenegger was introduced into the equation with his rallying cry to "clean house in Sacramento," California's Oct. 7 vote on whether to kick Gray Davis out of the Governor's office was shaping up to be the most surreal spectacle since the 2000 Florida recount. Now it's must-see politics, a reality show for the cable news channels, in which the prize is a budget mess to clean up and 34 million ungovernable Californians to lead. As the final deadline for entering the race passed Saturday evening, Conan the Candidate was one of several...
Both students met separately with Assistant Dean Keith Moon and the Harvard Summer School administrative board on Wednesday to recount the events...
...prepackaged television sound bites. I’m beginning to get a glimpse of the true suffering because one of my tasks has been to track down the names, addresses and phone numbers of the close relatives of British casualties. This means sifting through articles that recount the lives of young men like Kelan Turrington, looking at photos of the dead with their wives and children, and asking directory enquiries for phone numbers of the dead or widowed...
...poking fun at social mores and political outrages was the hoax. Unlike the frauds perpetrated by Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair, Franklin's satires were meant to be playful and to make a moral point, although they did occasionally deceive. "The Speech of Polly Baker," for example, purports to recount the speech of a young woman on trial for having a fifth illegitimate child. Franklin, who had fathered an illegitimate child but taken responsibility for him, was particularly scathing about the double standard that subjects her, but not the men who had sex with her, to humiliation. As Polly says...