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...Polanski, once described by Kenneth Tynan as "the five foot Pole you wouldn't want to touch with a ten-foot pole," was charged with drugging and sodomizing 13-year-old Samantha Gailery 26 years ago this month in the jacuzzi of Jack Nicholson's house. (The transcript of Gaillery's 1977 deposition can be read on thesmokinggun.com.) He fled the country when a plea bargain he'd negotiated was in jeopardy of being overturned. But Hollywood loves to forgive old reprobates; it is a way of congratulating them and its own sense of liberality. In 1972 Oscar welcomed back...
...Just seconds before, Harvard captain Dan Clemente-whose 29-point effort the previous night led the Crimson its most lopsided victory over Penn in 44 years-had calmly sunk a ten-foot jumper to put his team ahead. But during the timeout by Princeton that followed, the concern shifted from whether Clemente could make the go-ahead basket to whether he had left too much time on the clock in doing...
...other hand, is it fair that American feminists are handling Paula Jones with rubber gloves and tongs at the end of a ten-foot pole, in contrast to their performance when they embraced Anita Hill and demanded justice for her regarding charges against Clarence Thomas that were less serious than the squalid scene retailed by Paula Jones? This time, of course, the target of the accusations is someone politically on their side...
...demonstrators began in Cambridge at 2 p.m., marched down Mass. Ave. and across Harvard Bridge and arrived at City Hall at 3:30 p.m. Protesters carried a ten-foot cardboard ship and signs reading "No Aristide, No Peace" and "U.S. Work for Democracy, not Injustice...
Such appointments illustrate a truism pithily expressed by the counsel to Bush's transition team, C. Boyden Gray: "Personnel is policy." One outfit that has learned that lesson well is the Heritage Foundation, which last week deposited a ten-foot stack of resumes of some 2,500 would-be Bush appointees at the offices of the transition team. Sighed an already overloaded transition personnel director Chase Untermeyer: "What a wonderful gift...