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...financially yoked to abusive mates are usually loath to leave. Although she had been sexually abused for months by her boyfriend, 29-year-old Nancy, now a California artists' representative, pretended that nothing was wrong. "Here I was supposed to be this strong, independent woman who subscribed to Ms. and carried around a briefcase. To admit it was to admit that I had failed as a businesswoman," she says...
...Mickey Kaus ungracefully pointed out in The New Republic (and I ungracefully repeat here), it's not so surprising that a man might want to fool around with an attractive woman like Ms. Rice. You don't have to have grown up in a repressive environment to want to do that. What is repulsive about Hart is that as a presidential front-runner he was hanging around with a crowd no decent man should be part of, crazy mother...
...Dear Ms. Petty Assistant...
...fine. Well, not really. You see, Ms. Assistant, I am a senior at Harvard and it has recently come to my attention that my grade point average is slightly deficient vis-a-vis getting a diploma. As you can probably imagine, this is causing me a great deal of distress...
Some of my friends have told me that there are advisor-type people I can talk to about my problems here at Harvard, Ms. Assistant, but frankly if that means paying a bribe I'm afraid I just don't have a whole heap of moola. So I'm writing to different Harvard graduate schools to see if I can't get a better price for a Harvard affiliation from one of them...