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...election campaigns. Now she is trying to start a new television show called Beat the Press, with pro-Clinton Camille Paglia as her co-host. Says Paglia: "I view her as a major contemporary diva. I knew I would help her when I heard she posed with a rubber chicken. This is what we need in this country." "There's really nothing like self-deprecating humor," Huffington says. "We need to have humor in politics." As the spectacle of Arianna Huffington unfolds, the Republicans don't know whether to laugh...
...there is one likely future challenger to Jiang it is Qiao Shi, 71, chairman of the National People's Congress and a member of the Politburo's inner standing committee. Though the Congress has always been a rubber stamp for the party, Qiao is making a serious effort to turn it into a functioning legislature--and in the process use it as a power base. Some experts believe Qiao has liberalizing tendencies...
...daughter, Lidia. The son, Teddy (Chris F. Terrio '97) has his first sexual encounter with his Aunt Harriet/Sister Arabella/Lidia, charges his father for sexual services and battles for his manhood with his mother. Presiding over all this is the dotty Captain (Eric E. Amblad '98) who wears a rubber dildo on his head and whose utter incompetence is responsible for the fatal crash of the ship...
Third, while PUCC was more than generous in providing rubber stamps (and ink stamps) of approval for all of its candidates, it did not ensure that each candidate campaigned effectively in his or her own area. Some campaigned thoroughly; others, especially in the Yard elections, did not even bother to provide electronic position papers, which were presented via e-mail just prior to voting for all first-years and were thereby critical...
...true to the book's basic attitude toward Hollywood. Perhaps because he deals with the movie business from a position of strength--he writes things it needs--Leonard omits the contempt with which novelists traditionally drench their Hollywood horror stories. Leonard simply drops a real killer in among the rubber sharks, then sits back watchfully, his only comment a benign (or, at worst, sardonic) chuckle as his hero quietly chews them...