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...Harvard campus. On Friday, April 12, the very day when the D.A. dropped the charges against me, the Harvard Police, instead of issuing a sincere apology for maltreating a former post doctoral fellow who is a university professor (at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell), sent me a stern warning that from now on I have no right to even attend public lectures at Harvard, and that I will be considered a trespasser facing arrest if I refuse to comply...
...apartment complex, debuted in 1992 as an unconvincing thirtysomething for Gen Xers. When it returned the following season it was something else altogether, a dumb-brilliant parody of the soap universe, a show in which women dressed for work as though life were a continual audition for the Howard Stern Show. Heather Locklear was now entrenched as a nasty, libidinal Leona Helmsley-ish landlady in the making, while Sydney the hooker-stripper was chasing her sister Jane's amoral husband Michael...
Such an ad-lib might have been only mildly sociopathic for Grant--or, with a different target, for Howard Stern or Don Imus. But WABC is owned by Capital Cities/ABC, which is owned by Disney, a company sensitive to image befoulers and potential boycotts. After the Brown joke, Jesse Jackson wrote Disney president Michael Ovitz urging Grant's swift dismissal. Ovitz replied that "we have already determined how we will handle the situation." The next day, before air time, Grant was told he was through...
...plan to use them for the Olympics," said one law enforcement official. "The Olympics only came up once during the investigation when at one of their meetings one member said if a bomb goes off at the Olympics they would get blamed for it," said Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern. Federal officials say the two are leaders of the 15-member Georgia Republic Militia and have charged them with conspiracy and possession of unregistered explosives devices. The two had plans to assemble the explosives this weekend and conceal them in members homes until the day 'the war' begins, said Stern...
...19th century English writer Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past. By this stern standard, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has done his job with a pen in one hand, a noose in the other...