Word: riveras
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...Racial profiling is a potent political issue, not only because of the charges of discrimination it raises, but also, according to TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera, "because the African-American community has been one of Bill Clinton's strongest supporters, as was particularly evidenced during his impeachment battle." In New Jersey, where two white state troopers last April fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and a Hispanic, wounding three of the men, a section of the New Jersey Turnpike will be closed Saturday while forensic experts reenact the shooting. A state grand jury is investigating...
Instead, they can expect "sloppy clip jobs" from previously known scandals and " a handful of uncorroborated charges" made against Republicans. And this is only after leafing through a 16-page history of Flynt's media treatment, eight pages of responses from fans, and a note from Geraldo Rivera. It seems that though President Clinton unfortunately had plenty of skeletons in his closet to be unearthed, even Flynt's million-dollar enticement could not lure the snitchers to reveal enough about Republicans to fill an 84-page book...
NAME: Rush Limbaugh OCCUPATION: Radio talk-show blowhard BEST PUNCH: Read listener's e-mail on air that expressed the hope that Charles Grodin, Alan Dershowitz and Geraldo Rivera would have "simultaneous strokes" leaving them "without the gift of speech...
Somehow, Social Security reform doesn't attract the same audience. "This was our national soap opera," says neoconservative pundit Laura Ingraham. "It was our Days of Our Lives." So expect to hear more from people like Geraldo Rivera, host of a nightly CNBC talk show, who bashes Ken Starr the way he used to bash O.J. Simpson. Rivera has fed viewers an all-impeachment diet for months. Asked whether he will ever move on, he responds, "I have just begun the fight. I'm going to be talking about this next week. You have the Linda Tripp grand jury...
...society. The closing of final clubs as social options harms Harvard in its mission to prepare students for the outside world. These new restrictions on final clubs' visitors force Harvard to do whatever they can as soon as possible to improve students' social lives on campus. RUSSELL D. RIVERA...