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A tale of two drugs For over 25 years, many politicians, including the late Senator Ted Kennedy, fought to redress the imbalance between federally mandated sentences for possession of crack cocaine and the powder form of the drug. For example, a person convicted of possessing five grams of crack cocaine got the same mandatory sentence… Read more.
I published “Good Riddance: Anorexic Models No Longer Reign in Spain” on September 14, 2006. It was the eve of New York Fashion Week. And I hoped to join far more influential trendsetters in shaming organizers. That is, by highlighting the decision organizers of Madrid Fashion Week made to ban skinny models. Skinny models reign It had no impact.… Read more.
On Monday, Oprah released excerpts from an interview she and her “best friend” Gayle King did for the August issue of her own O, The Oprah Magazine, for which Gayle is editor-at-large. In it they deny they’re gay – though insist, of course, that “there’s nothing wrong with being gay.” Oprah begins: I understand why… Read more.
Celebrities enjoy a contrived relationship with the paparazzi. The relationship Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt orchestrate with the paparazzi illustrates this in spades. Jolie and Pitt as immigration officers But imagine a world so obsessed with and deferential to celebrities that they can get governments to do this: Jolie and Pitt pressured Namibian authorities … to hand over… Read more.
