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Third, because there is no real appeals process established by this policy and because ultimate decision-making authority lies with one person with this policy, students with medical conditions that may be embarrassing to the College are potentially subject to poorly informed and/or political decisions about the danger that their condition presents to themselves or others. For example, a student who is HIV-positive could be told to leave the College because of their supposed ability to pass the virus to other users of their dining hall. Perhaps this situation sounds far-fetched right now, but looking back a decade...
Resentment began with the listing of Perelman's wife Patricia Duff on the magazine's masthead, and grew when staff members were told to use pictures of Revlon execs in a layout. It exploded last week after Pecker spiked Premiere's California Suite column when he learned of the subject: business deals involving Sylvester Stallone and the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, which also has venture plans with Perelman...
...Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg is so consistently absorbing. Most lierary biographies are forced to make an exciting story out of lives containing little external incident, and as a result they either present a catalogue of mundane details or try to unearth some salacious, gossipy stories about their subject...
Still, Rubinstein often seems too quick to give his subject the benefit of the doubt. In the book's final pages, he mentions the Prague Spring uprising which took place 1968, one year after Ehrenburg's death, and comments offhandedly that it was "a cause Ehrenburg surely would have supported." Rubinstein seems to have forgotten his own account of how, during the similar 1956 revolt in Hungary, Ehrenburg was dispatched to a foreign writers' conference to defend Khrushchev's brutal intervention against criticism, a job he performed without complaint. True, Ehrenburg was no fawning Stalinist; but to imply that...
Nevertheless, Rubinstein's sympathy never completely blinds him to his subject's many ambiguities. The Ilya Ehrenburg who emerges from Tangled Loyalties is not a heroic man, but he is marvelously complex, as fascinating as the era he lived through. Tangled Loyalties must be of interest to anyone concerned about the troubled relationship between art and politics, both in the last century and in the century about to start...