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...didn't sign Bettie. The story goes that she was sent packing after she rejected a studio executive's horny attentions. By her own account, it was not the first or last time that she had to decide whether to submit to a man's priapic predations. Late in life she declared that her father had sexually abused her as a child. She also described an incident in New York where a young fellow asked her if she wanted to go dancing and, when she got in his car, took her to a spot in Queens where she was forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bondage Babe Bettie Page Dies at 85 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Rules Committee. City Council members voiced support for a compromise measure that would add “Halberstam” as an honorary name to the street but would leave the official designation as Plympton St. “The compromise of not renaming but creating an honorific sign system is a good one,” said councillor Henrietta Davis. “It allows us to keep the past in the present and to honor people of later generations as well.” But councillor David P. Maher said the council needed to examine this proposal more...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Debates Renaming Street | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

Last night, in another big game against a Boston rival, the freshmen came to play. Although the team fell 76-71 to Northeastern in a double overtime thriller, this is a sign of maturity the Crimson can build...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Frosh Bounce Back in Defeat | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...didn’t sign on board the Titanic,” he said. “I’d like to know what it is: ‘The J-Plan...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Smith Struggles With Financial Crisis, Computers | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...came in neat, little polystyrene trays with some cling-film over the top of it to make it look neat and tidy," he says. Many types of offal, especially brains, were banned when mad-cow disease struck in the late 1990s. Day says the revival now might be a sign of people yearning for more traditional dishes. "The English are only just growing up about food," he says. "They're only just discovering food." Or rediscovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Tongue, Kidney and Brains Boom | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

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