Word: whosing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreed to share the issue's ad revenue with the Staples Center without telling its reporters or readers about the fiscal arrangement. To give the subject of the paper's journalism a share in revenues seemed like a dangerous compromise of the paper's objectivity. Reporter Jim Newton, whose beat includes Mayor Richard Riordan's office, explains in layman's terms, "If I had a financial arrangement with Mayor Riordan and wrote about him, I'd be fired. It's a conflict of interest...
...Mark Willes, 58, the former General Mills cereal executive, became publisher and vowed to take a "bazooka" to the wall dividing "church" and "state"--the editorial operations and the business side. While journalists quaked, business types argued that it was a needed dose of cold realism for a paper whose profits had dropped and daily circulation had slipped from a peak of 1.24 million in 1991 to 1.1 million. Since Willes gave up the publisher's job to become chairman of Times Mirror Co. earlier this year, circulation remains stalled, but operating profits grew by double digits in the third...
...poly community is rallying around April, Chris and Shane, whose case may provide the tale of injustice every movement needs. The case could well be the first of its kind; it's surely the first to debate explicitly the worthiness of polies as parents. The roots of the movement, however, reach back to the communes of the mid-1800s and their flower-children descendants a century later. The poly family is usually smaller than a commune and more committed than a swingers' group--though polyamorists insist on the prerogative of each family to set its own rules about fidelity...
...modern stereotypes and jealousy and social conditioning." The arrangement was difficult but manageable. But the judge handling the grandmother's petition said one of the men had to move out before he would consider returning Alana. The case has dragged on for months. Divilbiss's lawyer Asa Hoke (whose fees are being paid with Loving More's help) hopes to persuade the court to change its mind since Chris has now moved. Hoke has also appealed the decision on constitutional grounds, arguing that parents should be able to raise their kids without undue interference...
...Juan), a transsexual prostitute who has raised artifice to a philosophy. "You are more authentic," this dear creature says, "the more you resemble what you dreamed you are." Manuela helps all these women resemble their dreams on their way to transcendence, accommodation or early death. By the end, Manuela--whose son is gone and whose dreadful ex-husband poisons all he touches--has knitted her de facto sorority into a family...