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SETTLED. SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUIT, BY BILL O'REILLY, 55, FOX News channel's brashly conservative talk-show host, and Andrea Mackris, 33, former producer of his show The O'Reilly Factor; for an undisclosed sum; in New York City. O'Reilly had vowed to fight the suit, which accused him of making sexually explicit phone calls to Mackris, saying, "If I have to go down, I'm willing to do it," but apparently changed his mind...
...with Curves, the gender-restrictive Blitz policy hasn't yet been successfully challenged in court. In 2003 a suit against Curves's women-only policy in Wisconsin resulted in a new bill exempting single-sex fitness centers from the state's discrimination statutes. Curves executives believe men-only gyms won't work because males don't need the sense of support that women crave. But, says Brooke MacInnis of the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association trade group: "The jury is still...
...dapper old man. His appearance is not so much wolfish as avian: his frame is slight, his nose hooked and beaky, his mischievous smile a little snaggle-toothed. His hair is midlength and floppy, la David Spade. He still wears his trademark white suit, accessorized with some kind of high-gloss old-timey shoes, but it hangs a little loose on him. When he reads small print he dons a pair of white-framed glasses...
...thus that, in his eighth decade, Tom Wolfe swapped his white suit for a less conspicuous blue blazer and set out on a tour of college campuses in search of Charlotte Simmons. "I went to fraternity parties," he recalls. "Very few of the students had any idea who I was. I was so old, and I always wore a necktie--I must have seemed somewhat odd to them." He trekked from Stanford to Ann Arbor, from Chapel Hill to the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The most valuable things were having people tell you about things like sex. I didn...
...When you see him in his finely tailored all black three-piece suit, thrusting his arm and clenched fist out at the packed crowd in a sign of Black Power, his voice wavering like an erratic EKG printout, reaching a crescendo mid-sentence and then trailing off so that he whispers the last word, syllable by syllable—“hu-man-i-ty”—it is then that you realize that Cornel West is not your ordinary professor...