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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CECIL JACKSON Elephant trainer to toss out opening pitch for Cincinnati Reds...
Last week's dustup over the personal finance column James J. Cramer writes for SmartMoney magazine is one of those "scandals" only a journalist could love: incredibly easy to toss off allegations of "conflict of interest" yet incredibly difficult to define concretely what, exactly, the conflict is. At the heart of it, though, lies the ludicrous notion that only journalists are pure enough to offer financial advice untainted by "conflict." Woe unto...
...Clinton Administration seems to be asking for trouble with its handling of a New Jersey case that involves a 1989 faculty layoff at Piscataway High School. The choice came down to two equally qualified teachers who had equal seniority. Ordinarily, that would have meant a coin toss to decide the loser. Instead the school board dismissed one of them, Sharon Taxman, who is white, arguing that keeping the other, who is black, was essential to diversity--not so much on the staff as a whole, which was 10% black, but just among the business teachers...
...punks at Harvard Square, on the orderlies at UHS and on former Soviet leaders. This week's fashion trend isn't about cheeze labels like "gen-x" or "glam rock" or "punk as fuck"--this trend crosses such petty verbal boundaries. I would suggest that the truly stylin' toss the CK One, grow out that short bleached and cropped hair, stop saving up for the perfect black penny loafers and invest in the single item which apparently rocks the Harvard fashion scene: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it ``evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism''-- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair...