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This letter, never printed, was written with the circumspection and sensitivity of a sexual orientation counselor at Bob Jones University. The author compared herself to me, saying: "for some of us it was harder to get in here [Harvard] than having Daddy make a phone call." Obviously, there's a lesson in here about the limits of critical discourse (moral: Harvard students are sharp as tacks and usually twice as tacky). But I was more shocked to hear about my dad than anything else...
...George W. Bush kicks off his South Carolina campaign at Bob Jones University and, with the right wing's support, wins the state's primary...
...Harry. Last week their normally phlegmatic father PRINCE CHARLES demonstrated in a brief but very public moment his appreciation for the reggae beat. Visiting Jamaica, the man who would be King became the toast of Kingston as he toured the blighted neighborhood of Trench Town and met with Bob Marley's widow Rita. The prince was anointed with a crown of dreadlocks fastened to a Rastafarian cap, which he donned briefly, and backward, before doffing it because of the heat. Rita Marley said had her husband been there, he would have "burn[ed] a spliff--a big, big spliff...
...knees. Despite McCain's Episcopal heritage, however, the service he attends--"every time he's in town; John is faithful in worship," says Yeary--is the 9 a.m. Sunday "contemporary" gathering at North Phoenix Baptist. The megachurch is part of the Southern Baptist Convention. More moderate than Bob Jones University, the S.B.C. is still scripturally and socially conservative. One prominent member is McCain target Jerry Falwell...
...emotional zombies are disguised as parents and teachers. If they weren't so well behaved, they'd scream with perplexed rage. The only bright spot in this spiffy shtetl of depression is the manic, half-Italian Judy (The Sopranos' Edie Falco), and she's leaving town. Barbara Barrie, Bob Dishy and the late Madeline Kahn shine in a pristinely black-and-white portrait of domestic derangement. But the film is one-note; misery is the only game in town. Poor Jews, the movie says--what they really want to be is...Italian...