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...slurs (''How do you like those Hispanic chicks who dye their hair blond? That's an attractive look. No wonder some Spanish guys are ready to rape any white woman who comes along''.) As for Ted Danson, he's still dealing with the fallout from a rare stab at stand-up comedy. Appearing at a Friars Club roast for his lover, Whoopi Goldberg, Danson wore blackface makeup, made crude jokes about their sex life and freely used a common derogatory word for black people. New York City Mayor David Dinkins was offended, and talk-show host Montel Williams resigned from...
...applaud the Pope in his hard stand against abortion and premarital sex. Sure, sin still abounds, and all of us have done something in violation of God's law. But that is no excuse to justify and legalize evil. Wrong is wrong. The Golden Rule still fits: ''Do unto others as you would have others do unto...
...irony is that the initials W.M.A. could stand for many of the people who will buy Pearl Jam's album. In fact, they stand for all the members of the band, as well as most of the people in the alternative rock scene, though female musicians have grown in prominence. In the liner notes to the Nirvana compilation Incesticide, lead singer Cobain wrote, "If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us the f--- alone!" And Scott Weiland, the flame-haired singer for Stone...
...other side has given nothing.'' ''Right,'' says a senior U.S. offical. ''And we won't. We're not negotiating. We're not considering any letters. We're not talking interpretations. They've got to live up to what they've signed. These wackos run to defensive positions when you stand up to them. They're not dumb. They went to school on Somalia. Now maybe they realize that Clinton needs to show some stickum some place, and that they're the ones that are going to get stuck unless they capitulate.'' And as of Saturday evening, capitulation finally seemed...
...Olympic summer, Beijing is buzzing. All over the city, iconic buildings designed by some of the world's best-known architects are changing the skyline--here a stadium like a bird's nest, there a media-company headquarters built in such crazy elevations that you wonder how it will stand up. But for me, it is the casual prosperity so evident in Songzhuang that proves that this is a city going through a revolution. For I can remember precisely the situation faced by artists when I visited Beijing for the first time, in 1994. Then the art scene was still...