Mayor Daley buying “assault rifles”
Story in the Chicago Tribune
And from Mayor Daley we learn:
There is a form of gun known as “a semi-fully-automatic weapon.”
“Criminals” can “carry assault weapons, it’s not a violation of federal law…”
The city plans to buy “semiautomatic assault rifles,” specifically “M4 carbines.” (I guess that could be right if they bought Bushmaster uppers).
Mr. Irrelevant
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Over the years, the last player selected in the annual NFL Draft has aquired the nickname of Mr. Irrelevant. The name evolved simply because the last pick …
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How the Nose Can Control Human Sexuality
does the nose control human sexuality?if humans can train (or genetically engineer) themselves to harness pheromones, sexual attraction in the to be to come may depend more on how someone smells than how someone looksor whether they’re a man or a strife.
source By Vaughn McClure, 6:50 p.m. With their second-round pick -- No. 44 overall -- the Bears selected running back Matt Forte from Tulane. He is a 6-foot-1, 217 pound back with 4.47 speed in the 40 yard dash. Picking Forte makes sense for the Bears, who wanted to bring in competition for Cedric Benson. With Benson slowly recovering from a broken leg, Forte might work his way into serious playing time. The question is, what happens to Garrett Wolfe? The Bears picked left tackle Chris Williams with their first pick -- No. 14 overall.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A nude photo of France's first lady was auctioned for $91,000, about 30 times more than anticipated, the Christie's auction house said.
The image was taken by photographer Michel Comte in 1993, when Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was one of the world's most sought-after models.
The 13-by-10-inch (33-by-25-centimeter) photo was bought Thursday by an anonymous bidder on behalf of a collector, Christie's said.
It was part of a selection of photographs auctioned by collector Gert Elfering that also included nude photos of models Lauren Hutton, Gisele Bundchen and Kate Moss. The money from the sale of the Bruni-Sarkozy photo will go to the Swiss charity Sodis, which provides clean drinking water to developing nations, Christie's said.
A late-night call to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office was not immediately returned Thursday. The office previously declined to comment on the sale, saying it concerned the leader's private life.
The photo had been expected fetch $3,000 to $4,000 at the auction, Christie's said.
Sarkozy divorced his second wife in October and married the Italian-born former model, now a successful singer, in February after a quick courtship. Bruni-Sarkozy made her first state visit as France's first lady in late March with a two-day trip to Britain, where she and her husband attended a lavish banquet held by Queen Elizabeth II.
source : mainichi
Another wack packer bites the dust
According to Steve Langford, Kenneth Keith Kallenbach’s mother told Howard 100 news that Kenneth had died at a hospital currently awaiting trial.
You can leave a comment on his myspace page : http://www.myspace.com/kennethkeith
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| MyFoxNY.com -- An actress who appeared in several television shows and movies including "The Stepford Wives" says she has sold accounts of her sex life with Norman Mailer to Carole Mallory says she was Mailer's mistress between 1983 and 1992. He was married to his sixth and final wife at the time. Mailer had a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Ivy League school. The amount Harvard paid for the papers has not been disclosed. "There's a 20-page sex scene from an unpublished memoir I wrote called Making Love With Norman. It's very steamy. Mailer died last November at 84 years old. image source : popmary.com |
Boxes of material on the steamy relationship between Norman K. Mailer ’43 and longtime mistress Carole Mallory are now available in the Harvard Depository—but not just for the sex, according to officials from the Harvard College Library.
Several years ago, Mallory contacted Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, to inquire about the University’s interest in purchasing the archive, which provides insight into the life of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died last November.
After several years of negotiation with Mallory, Harvard finally purchased the collection, which arrived three weeks ago.
The collection includes correspondence between the pair—”No steamy love letters, I’m afraid,” Morris said—transcripts of Mallory interviewing Mailer, photographs, press clippings, scraps of paper saved from her writing lessons with Mailer, and an unpublished memoir called “Making Love with Norman.”
Morris said she is “a little ticked” by the media’s focus on the collection’s sexual content. Harvard, she said, did not purchase the collection solely for its explicit material.
“When we acquire collections of material, there often is sex in it because people are human beings,” Morris said. “It’s very weird to have a completely sexless collection.”
According to Morris, Harvard purchased the collection mainly for its insight into Mailer’s “method of working” as a writer. Mailer’s comments on the manuscript of Mallory’s unpublished novel “When I Fall in Love” are especially revealing, Morris said.
“What we’re interested in here is not sex, but in how writers write,” she added.
Beth Brainard, director of communications for the Harvard College Library, said the curators of the Library found the papers in Mallory’s collection significant not because of their sexual content but because Mailer was a graduate of Harvard and an influential American writer.
“It’s always an extraordinarily important thing for any large resource center to get a hold of the literary remains of anybody of that stature,” said Robert Scanlan, professor of English and Mailer’s acquaintance in the early 1970s.
Scanlan said he had a “rollicking” time with Mailer—“a pleasantly truculent guy, sort of like a barroom companion”—who loved to project the “macho image.”
Though Scanlan said he did not know the details of Mailer’s sex life, the English professor said any explicit description of the writer’s sexuality would shed light on Mailer’s fiction, which often directly explores sex.
“Sexual content, racy language, obscene language are definitely a major part of his career as an author,” Scanlan said.
——Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu.
Carly Smithson’s choice was not popular. Carly Smithson failed to win more votes. Carly Smithson swallowed her pride in a way. Carly Smithson said she was very proud of herself. Simon Cowell, one of the American Idol judges, said that she should be. Did Simon mean Carly should be proud for leaving? Did Simon mean Carly should be proud of her singing? It was hard to tell when Simon used sarcasm or not.
Carly Smithson is married. At the start of the American Idol season, some gossip and rumors tried to rock the boat of Carly Smithson. Whispers said she was pregnant. Carly Smithson even had to come out into the open and deny her pregnancy.
Being a fan of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," I've already got a not-altogether-sincere appreciation for the work of Rick Astley. So you can imagine my delight when, while using the Internet one day last week in a highly productive manner (I swear!), I stumbled across this curiosity:
U.S. singer Mariah Carey arrives at a department store in central London, for a signing, Tuesday April 1, 2008. Carey on Tuesday attended the only planned signing in Britain for her latest single 'Touch My Body'.
(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
U.S. singer Mariah Carey, gestures as she arrives at a department store in central London, for a signing, Tuesday April 1, 2008. Carey on Tuesday attended the only planned signing in Britain for her latest single 'Touch My Body'.
(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Mariah Carey at MTV's TRL awards in New York, February 21, 2006. The singer is currently tied at No. 2 with Elvis Presley for the most Hot 100 No. 1 singles, with 17. The Beatles hold the crown with 20.
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