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Sante and Kenny Kimes are a walking, talking dime novel. This mother-and-son grifter team has conned, robbed and even enslaved. But the real problem, as an acquaintance observes, is that "the people they deal with keep coming up dead." The most famous of these may be Irene Silverman. This clunky but engrossing account of the Kimeses' relationship with the wealthy Manhattanite leaves us where the New York Police Department is now: with a seemingly notorious murder, but no body and only circumstantial evidence. Still, the book's catalog of doctored passports and errant blood drops shows why this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mother, the Son, and the Socialite | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...think that they could say where the recipes come from," says Ariana Silverman '99 of Kirkland House. "I told at least 15 people what the difference between baba ganoush and hummous was at the last [Saharan Nights] dinner," she says...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In HDS' festive meals, what are the ingredients of a cultural experience? | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...think that they could say where the recipes come from," says Ariana Silverman '99 of Kirkland House. "I told at least 15 people what the difference between baba ganoush and hummous was at the last [Saharan Nights] dinner," she says...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing With Your Food | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Marc Ambinder's "Here Come the Gender Theorists," (Opinion, March 11, 1999), I would like to point out Ambinder's basic misunderstanding of gender theory. Deconstructive gender theory, which includes the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, but also scholars such as Diana Fuss, Eve Sedgwick and Kaja Silverman to name a few, examines the social meanings attached to categories of masculinity and femininity. It does not deny that anatomical sex determines whether one is male or female but suggests that the value placed on these categories is culturally determined. In the first page of Bodies That Matter, Judith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...Marc Ambinder's "Here Come the Gender Theorists," (Opinion, March 11, 1999), I would like to point out Ambinder's basic misunderstanding of gender theory. Deconstructive gender theory, which includes the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, but also scholars such as Diana Fuss, Eve Sedgwick and Kaja Silverman to name a few, examines the social meanings attached to categories of masculinity and femininity. It does not deny that anatomical sex determines whether one is male or female but suggests that the value placed on these categories is culturally determined. In the first page of Bodies That Matter, Judith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theory Misunderstood | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

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