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Most of us have little problem with aristocracy, benevolent or otherwise. Many of you will spend next year in the corporate and academic worlds, both aristocracies of varying degrees. Do not, in your spirals up or down towards money or fame or angst, forget the importance of the ritual gesture...
...event that was part spiritual awakening, part Southern storytelling and part moral crusade, Sister Helen Prejean, of Dead Man Walking fame, enthralled a packed crowd at the Divinity School yesterday afternoon...
...center of the scandal was Kevin Pendergast, a former Notre Dame football star who had gained fame in 1992 when he was hurriedly pressed into action during the Sugar Bowl game after the team's place kicker was injured. He kicked one field goal and an extra point at a critical time, helping the Irish to a dramatic 39-28 come-from-behind upset victory over favored Florida. Two years later, he kicked the winning field goal for Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl in a stirring 24-21 victory over Texas A&M. He had arrived at Notre Dame...
...Video Music Awards (it's fine as a novelty track on an album, but to perform it in front of a crowd of rock legends?) and b) stripping down and writhing on the floor, fake hair extensions and caked makeup ensuring her place in the Elizabeth Berkeley hall of fame...
...irrelevant, that haunting possibility of becoming "domesticated" drives Madonna to be so desperately ambitious, impossibly brilliant and acutely self-aware. Madonna knows the impact of her own revolutionary spirit--the world has become incredibly small to her, if you think about it--and that has brought her both gargantuan fame and the stigma of arrogance. There is no question that Madonna has developed into somewhat of a pretentious personality. She clings to a smarmy British accent, bashes Britney Spears and the other teen pop stars even though her early music was just as packaged and diluted, complains about the "sucky...