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...last week, things changed. Two days in a row, I sat down with my morning paper to read on the front page about serious charges leveled against students I know personally. Two days in a row, the Harvard social gossip wheel started spinning long before lunchtime with details of transgressions, details few gossipers were clear on but many were fabricating, details in which the rumormongers seem to take something of a voyeuristic guilty pleasure. It makes my stomach turn...
That means no back talk if a cop pulls you over. Looking straight ahead and keeping your hands on the steering wheel where the officer can see them. Asking permission before you reach for your driver's license. And never, ever running away the way Timothy Thomas did, even if you're completely innocent. It's better to be arrested and spend the night in jail than to catch a bullet fleeing arrest...
...works are simple. In each piece tubers fall from a bicycle wheel attached to a fan motor in the ceiling and cascade to the floor. The foot-like paper balls that hang just above the floor make the tubers look like legs, and give the impression that one could be looking at a giant arachnid...
...finally answers, "Yup. Just the wheel," as he points to his carry-on suitcase...
...Print is the only medium tough enough to handle the kind of graphic violence and unblinking social commentary handed out in the clip directed by husband Guy Ritchie. Plus you can read it over and over in the light of day. The video depicts Madonna behind the wheel of a yellow Camaro with a front license plate that reads "Pussy" and a rear plate that reads "Cat." She slams into leering young men and scratches a police car before picking up an elderly woman at a lewdly named old-folks' home. Then Madonna and gal pal switch...