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...starting a substantive conversation...aye, there's the rub. A lot of people fear that some monster called "Political Correctness" is going to devour them if they slip up--if they, for instance, forget to use the adjective "[fill-in-the-blank]-ly-challenged." Only peppering one's speech with the words "pluralism," "diversity," and "sensitivity," it seems, will appease the beast...
...been a time when English common law was studied and revered, but at the end of the 20th, we're more familiar with TV's Judge Judy than with James Madison. "High crimes and misdemeanors" sounds like it could mean anything, from murder to jaywalking. And here's the rub--Mason's dirty little secret--it could mean anything. The Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole authority to decide what constitutes grounds for impeachment. That's why President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868, when a nasty political dispute got out of hand. (The Senate failed by a vote...
...your poll shows that less than 30% of women today consider themselves feminists. The term feminist, it appears, is almost regarded as an insult, reserved for women who want to conquer the world and all its men. But a woman's success is seldom a point she wants to "rub in" to members of the opposite sex. She may wish to be viewed as an individual, not as a representative of her gender. Sadly, our society is one that cannot differentiate between someone's proving a point as a woman and proving herself as a person. LAUREN RUTLEDGE...
...marriage penalty is a peculiar "tax" levied mainly on married couples in which the husband and wife have similar incomes. Once relatively rare, pay parity in two-earner homes has become fairly common in the '90s--and there's the rub. Such households often pay more federal income tax married than if the two earners had remained single and just moved in together. How's that for Uncle Sam walking in on your love life...
...upcoming Andy Kaufman film, to be directed by Milos Forman, will rub Carrey's nose in some of these issues. Late in his career, Kaufman orchestrated increasingly bizarre spectacles--onstage fights, misogynistic wrestling matches--in which audiences (not to mention friends and colleagues) were kept in the dark as to what was real and what was an act. "That's why he's such a comedian's comedian," Carrey says. "He never let anybody in on the joke. That's our sickness--the audience has to know we're kidding, otherwise they won't like us. That...