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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Federal Communication Commission Chairman Reed Hundt, who is both loved and hated by the industry he oversees, announced Tuesday he plans to resign but will stay on for the next several months until a successor is found. Hundt, who spearheaded a major effort to deregulate the communications industry, said he is stepping down to spend more time with his children and to write a book about his experiences at the FCC. Hundt said he was proud of his record: "In the past three years, this commission has put the ball in the net more often than...
...have thoroughly enjoyed my tenure as a Crimson editorial columnist. To quote a phrase popularized by Ishmael Reed, "writin' is fightin'," and I've relished the chance to joust with my political and ideological opponents. The negative responses that I sometimes provoked only helped to motivate me. I've received replies ranging from polite criticism to outraged diatribes--even one death threat--but I won't apologize to anyone who I offended because they probably deserved...
...discussing the recent Knicks-Heat brawl with a man in his fifties. He remembers the Knicks of Walt Frazier, Willis Reed and Bill Bradley...
When one of his fans complimented Ralph Reed by calling him the Christian Lee Atwater, she meant that he combined conservative morality with electoral smarts. But Atwater is gone, and other prominent Republican kingmakers of the Reagan-Bush era--James Baker, Ed Rollins, Charles Black--are out to pasture. To Reed, who last week announced his resignation as executive director of the Christian Coalition, this adds up to what he describes as a "strategic void." The 35-year-old Christian operator is not forsaking God for Mammon, but is seeking to fill that vacuum and lead the religious right...
...America, we have taken the opposite trajectory. We run from Donna Reed. We couldn't work in the 1950s. We had to be stay-at-home moms. In contrast to women in the Soviet Union, women in America have a long legacy as symbols of sex and womanly beauty: Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie O. The list could go on forever. Somehow, though, this ability to be proud of one's appearance and to be an ornament has not been enough for American women. Neither has the weak image women receive as mothers been satisfying...