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...deed is done, and the reputation of the Grille forever soiled. Some, no doubt, will cease to drink there, unwilling to be patron to a place so tainted by scandal. But we call upon all good Harvard students to continue to support the Grille in this, its trying hour of need. The owner and managers of the Grille are decent and humble folk, and we are certain that this black mark--like those of five earlier sting operations and $12,000 previously paid in alcohol fines--will forevermore weigh heavy on their brows...
...scandal engulfs another Rodham, the genial, decent one, Hillary's younger brother, known as Hughie. A near constant presence in the Clintons' lives since he and brother Tony tagged along on their 1975 honeymoon, Hughie has a complicated relationship with his sister. Growing up, the little warmth their father Hugh Rodham Sr. had to give went primarily to Hillary. She was the Warrior Princess of Oak Park, Ill., beating up the boys in the neighborhood, always the captain when her brothers played "spaceship," less afraid, by her telling, of the scary flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz than Baby...
Even before the pardon scandal, the relationship between brother and sister as adults could be strained. It was as if Hughie had never grown out of his grandiose and childlike schemes while Hillary became a real-life Warrior Princess. As Hughie bounced from Peace Corps volunteer to public defender to a quixotic run for the Florida Senate in 1994--getting only 30% of the vote--he looked slightly hapless and more dependent on his sister's good graces. During the second term, Hugh spent ever more time on the third floor of the White House, accumulating so much stuff that...
...Piero's unique combination of physical intensity and complex, abstract formality seems to have shaped Balthus' deepest pictorial ambitions. But the streak of ambiguous desire he brought to his imagery of the nude was peculiar to Balthus, and it invested his work with a permanent scent of scandal...
...third of girls and 45% of boys have had sex. The article notes that many kids who haven't had intercourse have had sexual experiences. Half of all teenagers have engaged in oral sex, an activity many consider less serious than intercourse. Some experts suggest the Lewinsky scandal may have fueled this trend...