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...Take Back the Night” (TBTN), the well-intentioned campaign against sexual violence, necessarily begs the question, who is the night being taken back from?In 1999, Ross G. Douthat ’02, now a reporter at the Atlantic Monthly, chronicled the campus event, which featured an invited speaker who accused conservatives of wanting “to lock up pregnant black women.” She then compared a law permitting a woman to defend herself against a would-be rapist with a woman’s right not to be besieged...
NURSE CAROL HATHAWAY The creepy family reunion Julianna Margulies attends with Ali MacGraw in Broadway's Festen gets dark, but having survived being left by George Clooney's Dr. Ross, she should get through...
...palace with the modern world in other barely perceptible steps: relaxing the rules for the 30,000 invitees to her garden parties so that men needn't spend money on a morning suit, and chucking out the old rule that restricted state banquets to married apparent heterosexuals. Malcolm Ross, a kind of chief of protocol in the Lord Chamberlain's Office for 14 years, says the Queen takes a seriously pragmatic approach to ceremony: "Ceremony is meaningful only if it is relevant. It must make sense...
...herself have to do with these changes? Does she benignly preside while staffers take the initiative, or is she a hands-on manager? Her staff say that she is almost spookily well-informed and observant. "Her memory of detail, her instinct for what is right, is absolutely superb," says Ross. Hunka, the personnel chief, says "she's obviously not immersed in the details of employment legislation, but whenever an issue gets to her, her feedback is never against what I would say as an experienced human resources person. She's always on the beam; it's uncanny." Prince Andrew says...
...consistently popular boss - which has not always been true for all members of the royal family. "There's a lot of esprit de corps here," says Ross. "People stay a long time, and they don't get rich. It's because she's wonderful to work for. You cannot bluff, you cannot pull the wool over her eyes. You get clear direction, never ambiguous, and once a decision is made, it's not changed. The hardest thing about the job is ever letting her down." Hunka says the palace "is almost without politics. I never have to write a memo...