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...wanted badly to like this book. For one thing, as life stories of people thrust into the spotlight go, Clark's is an interesting one, full of hard knocks and two tough marriages and professional success and a climactic trial by fire. During the Simpson case, some of the seamier details about her tempestuous relationship with her first husband Gaby, a professional backgammon player, surfaced in the tabloids. Clark explains how hard this hit her: "I was a survivor. I had surmounted my personal difficulties through acts that took considerable initiative and will. In the summer...
This was undeniably a ground-breaking period in Harvard's age-old history: established power was thrust aside in an institution which generally demanded--and received--respect for traditional authority. Many of the issues which this campus is grappling with today--minority representation in the Faculty, the University's continued affiliation with ROTC and the desire to assure individual rights without inviting victimization--first boiled to the surface, in dramatic fashion, during and after the takeover...
Woods will need all the help he can get, now that an awesome responsibility is being thrust upon him. He isn't going to bridge the racial divide of golf, much less America, all by himself. We are not suddenly one nation indivisible just because the kid can turn Augusta into a pitch and putt...
Finally, Oppenheim complains that the Ellen case is foolishness because "Americans probably don't even care. They do not need nor wish to have issues of sexuality constantly thrust in their faces...The fact that Ellen likes women is no more important to my life than whether Jerry Seinfeld enjoys receiving fellatio...
...lesbian. I wholeheartedly believe that this atmosphere of acceptance is, for the most part, a good thing. However, what the activists and the media don't realize is that most Americans probably don't even care. They do not need nor wish to have issues of sexuality constantly thrust in their faces. I do not condemn homosexuals, and I adamantly support their right to be treated as equal citizens. However, I do not need to be constantly reminded of what they do in the privacy of their homes. The fact that Ellen likes women is no more important...