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Instead, Rivers took several students aside to explain her transition from man to woman, according to parents who objected that their religious and moral standards had been violated. In all, four parents filed formal complaints, assisted by the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based firm that often represents Christian conservatives. Passions were further inflamed when Rivers gave an interview to the student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some...
...According to one social theory, everyone on the planet can be connected to anyone else in six steps. So the paper asked Salah Ben Ghaly, an Iraqi immigrant who owns a local falafel stand, to whom he would most like to be linked. Ghaly, naturally, chose MARLON BRANDO. It took some months, but Die Zeit managed to relate them. A friend of Ghaly's who lives in California works in the same company as Ken Carlson, boyfriend of Michelle Bevin, sorority sister to Christina Kutzer, daughter of Patrick Palmer, producer of Don Juan de Marco, in which Brando starred. Alas...
...Fifth Avenue gallery last week, venerable art dealer MARY BOONE offered a little more. For a show featuring a sculpture made of guns, Boone filled a vase with 9-mm cartridges, a thoughtful parting gift for art patrons. Unfortunately, the law didn't see it that way. Police took Boone to jail, where she spent more than 24 hrs. and was charged with possessing an exposed rifle and disposing of ammunition. She maintained the bullets weren't live (ballistics tests disproved this) and refused to eat (at least until her chauffeur arrived with bagels). Boone insists she was framed...
When Ochs died in 1935, his son-in-law Arthur Hays Sulzberger became publisher and arrived in that position with such "haphazard and incomplete" training that he admitted feeling "frightened and alone." After his retirement, his son-in-law Orvil Dryfoos took over. He had come to the paper from a seat on the stock exchange but had been somewhat more carefully groomed. Tragically, he died young, in 1963, when his diseased heart failed following a bitter strike that shuttered the Times for 114 days. Dryfoos' untimely death foisted the top job at the paper on young Arthur Ochs ("Punch...
Punch's son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. took over the paper in 1992 without much real management experience, but like each of his forebears, he grew into the job. He has continued the tradition of trusting in strong and intellectually gifted editors and, like his father, has had the strength to disappoint relatives who hoped to have larger roles in running the paper...