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...wartime occupation of China. "I know what I did wasn't right," Fu told China's Da Gong magazine. "But I believe my cause was just ... As a famous Chinese person, she should have been aware of such an important event in Chinese history." For a time, the peccadillo reportedly cut in half her asking price for ad work. She still refuses to discuss the flag flap...
However titillating the 13-year-old in all of us might find Bill's latest peccadillo, push past the packaged bash-and-trash spin-cycle, turn off those dammed network excuse-for-national-news shows and pick up a reputable newspaper. Inside, turn to the international section, and read about threats to freedom, war and peace, and a mostly completed Balkan genocide. It's tyranny, oppression and grievous threats to our national security that matter, not Monica...
...follower--the job description of a Vice President. "Be a leader," he has always exhorted his four children. "Be who you were meant to be." Headstrong, undisciplined, sometimes self-righteous, he is a man who has a predilection for shooting himself in the foot over a principle--or a peccadillo. In his talky speeches, he never uses a simple word where a fancy one will do, coming across like the class jock who would rather be perceived as the class brain. That's partly why some say Jack Kemp tries too hard. But the point is, he tries, and never...
...when the English actor was arrested in Hollywood for felonious fellatious activity with a hooker named Divine Brown, it was inevitable that late-night talk-show host Jay Leno would crack wise ("Welcome to Hollywood, or, as Hugh Grant calls it, Tonsiltown!"). But deep into July, Grant's peccadillo is still front-page news and late-night joke fodder. Last week, as he dutifully kept four talk-show dates in the U.S. to promote his new comedy, Nine Months, he was also a reluctant nightly guest on David Letterman's Top 10 list. Least Popular Summer Drink No. 6: "Hugh...
...this financial peccadillo an occasion for racial rejoicing? Because it shows that equal opportunity for blacks is alive and well. When Brown was decided, it would have been unthinkable for an African American to be accused of a financial crime of such magnitude for the simple reason that no African American was in a position to commit one. Back then, being a messenger or clerk was the best job a black could hope for on Wall Street. Beyond that, many whites thought blacks lacked the intellect to devise a scheme as sophisticated as the one Jett is accused of, much...