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...freedom to write what he pleases isn’t so extraordinary in the view of nonchalant Oxfordians. If the Oxford Student is any indication, the British don’t seem to censor much of anything. The Oxford Student is “a little more tabloid-ish, a little more edgy,” says Fenster. With such telling headlines as “Shit Happens” (over student council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break away from traditional government...
...second consideration, however, prejudice and disinformation are probably entirely appropriate to a comparison of this type, because whilst The Crimson is modelled on The New York Times, we at The Oxford Student aspire to the editorial content of The Sun—a tabloid famous for such front-page headline genius as ‘Zip Me Up Before You Go Go’ (re: George Michael’s outing in an LA toilet...
...have looked at child-porn sites maybe three or four times in all, the front pages and previews," he told a London tabloid. "I have only entered once using a credit card, and I have never downloaded." If it's true that Townshend, 57, was sexually abused as a child, that could help explain his best music, which reached into reserves of fear and rage that many other rock musicians only pretend to possess. As both a head-banging rocker and the beseeching man-child who wrote, "See me, feel me/Touch me, heal me"--for Tommy, about...
...older brother, Wakanohana?charmed the nation with his good looks and pop-star persona. "Taka" had the bluest of sumo blood (both his father and his uncle were high-level wrestlers), but it was his superstar celebrity outside the ring?the magazine covers, the celebrated love affairs, the lurid tabloid details?that humanized the highly traditional sport. "He gave sumo a facelift, a new image," says Akebono, a yokozuna from 1993 to 2001. Sumo wrestlers were just like normal people, he proved, give or take a hundred kilos...
Keythe Farely and Brian Flemming, two colleagues from the Actors’ Gang, inspired Bat Boy when they showed O’Keefe a tabloid about an escaped bat creature...