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...degree to which Paglia's own posturings have been highly marketable and even more highly lucrative. Presenting herself as, variously, the ultimate outsider; the last remaining "authentic" voice of feminism; a battle-weary warrior for truth, justice, and the 'merican way, poor, poor Professor Paglia hits the lecture circuit, appears on talk show after talk show and yaps, yaps, yaps, about how she has been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman show resembles noting so much...
...Scene were joined onstage with Edwards for a couple of songs, harking back to the days when Edwards and The Scene recorded several popular albums together, but Edwards really shone during his own set. He remains as enigmatic a performer as anyone on the folk circuit today, and since his quirky humor is not captured on his albums, local Edwards fans eagerly anticipate his shows for a chance to catch his act. The older crowd at Saunders loved his attempts at self-depracating slapstick--Edward's got the biggest laughs of the night when he parodied the music his children...
...suit failed at the district court level and on appeal: the seventh circuit, while noting that clinic violence was "reprehensible," refused to let Clayton try to prove that the defendants had committed it. The reasoning: a criminal "enterprise" must be dedicated to economic gain. Last week, however, Rehnquist disagreed. "We do not think this is so," he wrote simply. And "nowhere in ((RICO)) is there any indication that an economic motive is required...
Patrick has also worked as a clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt in the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund...
...shirtbox-size bombs, delivered by mail or private courier, were packaged in brown cardboard and wrapped with tape. Several bore the return address of an iron-and-metal company in Pennsylvania. In each was a fishing-tackle box. When the latch was opened, it connected an electrical circuit and set off several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore...