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...good or evil among men” is a woman’s “great glory.” His concern is not the limitation or restriction of women and their actions, but rather their ennoblement; he does not think they should be subject to gossip and rumor. Women want—and deserve— privacy, Pericles seems to be saying. Of course, Ms. Magazine’s newest issue disregards that proposition. The new issue of the magazine, which hit newsstands on Oct. 10, features the cover story “We Had Abortions...
...that he is gay--it's that he spent a lifetime hiding it. True, in recent years the Congressman was seen in the company of a male dermatologist in his district. Even so, in 2003 Foley revealed the deep shame he felt about his homosexuality when he called the rumor mill about his gay life "revolting." "My mother and father raised me ... to believe there are certain things we shouldn't discuss in public," he said then. "Some of you may believe that it's old-fashioned, but I believe those are good ideals...
...rejected police’s version of the events.Yet, the prosecution charged ahead.Last Wednesday, just two days before the case was scheduled for trial, Cambridge District Court Judge George R. Sprague ’60 dismissed it, against the objections of the prosecutor. After months of speculation and rumor, it was finally over.On the cusp of graduation, the class of 2006 revelled in their last night together at the Senior Soiree. On that warm June evening, the class danced and slipped into a collective alcohol-induced haze. Matthew C. Thomas ’06-’07 ended...
...Foley with his arm around really hot women," recalls my reporter friend. Such photos may have swayed the voters back home. But here in Washington, at least, few were convinced. Most who knew Foley socially assumed he was gay - though before this year I had never heard even a rumor that he actively pursued teenage boys. (Indeed, until recently, few paid much attention to something they assumed was Foley's business.) If anything, the pictures seemed over the top, as my friend puts it, "as if he was going out of his way to prove his heterosexuality." At the same...
...your co-workers find the rumor du jour hard to resist? Is your office laced with backbiting and backstabbing? April Callis of Springboard Consulting says she has the cure: Gossip Stoppers. The East Lansing, Mich., trainer has given this half-day workshop 30 times this year at infected workplaces like hospitals and universities and is now fielding requests from corporations...