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...house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. When her father re-enters her life, and they become mutually obsessed. The actual affair does not begin until a gloomy courtship by letter, tape and phone call has worn thin. The carnal phase is really an epilogue. Soon the father has shed religion in favor of breeding attack dogs, and the daughter has decamped for New York City to write a novel. "One hesitates to question the veracity of a book labeled a memoir," says Duffy...
...house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. When her father re-enters her life, and they become mutually obsessed. The actual affair does not begin until a gloomy courtship by letter, tape and phone call has worn thin. The carnal phase is really an epilogue. Soon the father has shed religion in favor of breeding attack dogs, and the daughter has decamped for New York City to write a novel. "One hesitates to question the veracity of a book labeled a memoir," says Duffy...
...separate incident that evening, Dearblha S. McHenry '00 had a Walkman stolen from the Greenough common room. A cassette tape that was in it had been tossed into a bowl of water, according to Greenough proctor Jeanne Y.Evans...
Recently, the Texaco corporation settled a high-profile racial discrimination lawsuit for a staggering $176 million. Accounts of discrimination and harassment at Texaco were widely reported in the media, and a damning tape of top executives sneering at black employees and conspiring to destroy employment records was released to the press. One could interpret this story as evidence that pervasive racism still plagues corporate American, and that herculean efforts are sometimes necessary to shatter the glass ceiling...
...instead focuses almost exclusively on the secretly recorded tape. The Texaco executives were first reported in The New York Times as referring to blacks as "niggers" and "black jelly beans." He claims that the reference to "niggers" was later discovered to be a garbled pronunciation of "St. Nicholas," and the language about jelly beans was taken from a diversity seminar. Hence, Leo surmises, Texaco's image had been unfairly tarnished by a sensationalist media. He adds, "it's hard to shed tears for Texaco," but then proceeds to drum up more pity for the corporation, excusing another racist remark...