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...Woods showed his appreciation for the genre by dragging it up as "Erin Chocovitch," displaying what he conceded to me were the spindliest legs in the business. His beautiful young date seemed shell-shocked. One surmised that she'd perhaps seen his legs before, but not through a slit skirt fashioned from a hotel tablecloth. "Quills" star Geoffrey Rush sadistically lampooned his fellow Aussie Russell Crowe by appearing as a vain over-the-top gladiator, displaying even more legs and obnoxious personality than his compatriot. (Crowe showed up for the event, but not, alas, until after he had been skewered...
...real slow with a flick of her hair and a flash of a smile. Fifi wasn't much good at school, but she knew she could charm the teachers, especially the fuddy-duddy middle-aged ones, who fumbled when she smoothed her hair or adjusted the pleats on her skirt. "Shanghai women know a lot more than Shanghai men," she says. "We know the game, and we have to teach them the rules...
These questions may be important ones, but they will always skirt the surface. The real debate over homosexuality--whether or not it is morally acceptable--has been by and large suppressed, its undercurrents occasionally bubbling over into the pages of the Salient or letters to the editor. Though homosexuality is still a lightning rod in national politics, the morality debate is regarded on this campus as if it had been settled decades ago and needs no further examination. This reluctance to engage the question gives the liberal position a reputation for weakness, and it does Harvard's gay students...
About ten minutes into the protest, HSAS member Benjamin M. Stoll '04 joined the strippers, quickly taking off his clothes to reveal a fishnet bodysuit and leopard-print skirt...
...usual course of politics takes over: Card will suffer briefly for his "misunderstanding," while Bush et al. skirt any real trouble. In fact, the President probably owes thanks to Card, who, apart from his apparent willingness to fall on his sword, has, perhaps inadvertently, shown the administration the path to take on these two controversial topics - and that similarly touchy issues should be subject to more of a look-before-you-leap examination in the future...