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tiger woods, warren beatty,and the american man:who is allowed to do it?

and why? or whatever?

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Tiger Woods, Warren Beatty, and the American Man: Who Is Allowed to Do It?

Who’s allowed to have a lot of sex and who isn’t is now a subject at the heart of American culture. The reason Tiger Woods shouldn’t be having copious sex is explained in great detail by my colleague, Buzz Bissinger, in this month’s Vanity Fair. Bissinger’s view is that Woods made himself into a non-sexual being and, thus, having sex—so much sex—exploded his image of ineffable remoteness. This cool specimen turned into a dirty bastard.
On the other hand, we learn from reports about a forthcoming biography of another cool guy, Warren Beatty, that, by biographer Peter Biskind’s math, Beatty has had sex with 13,000 women—a credit to his image, rather than a liability.
But it may be too that there is a sexual class system. We allow some master-of-the-universe bulls to be sexually profligate, while we begrudge others—arriviste poodles like Edwards—satisfaction of their desires.
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the global war of stealth underwear

yeah- gee- how did this guy slip though- not enough clues- ?-

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The explosives-laden underwear–worn by an airline passenger who had previously been flagged as a potentially dangerous fanatic, and who had paid cash for his ticket and had no checked luggage–was the terrorist’s weapon of choice, one that could have blown a hole in the side of Northwest Airlines’ Detroit-bound Flight 253 on Christmas Day, killing hundreds of innocents. But it is not a weapon to be effectively countered with the deployment of hundreds of thousands of American combat troops. Nor can it be stopped by the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of planes, subs and missiles in our arsenal of Cold War-era weapons, part of an annual defense budget that is higher in inflation-adjusted dollars than at any time in the past half-century.

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pharmaceutical giant paid $500,000.00 to psychiatrist who used chicago’s poor as guinea pigs

sure……………….this is b.s.

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Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago’s Poor as Guinea Pigs

Dr. Michael Reinstein reaped a cool half million off his patients’ misery.
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On one hand, Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein was bringing the company a small fortune in sales and was conducting research that made one of its most promising drugs look spectacular.

On the other, some worried that his research findings might be too good to be true.

As Reinstein grew irritated with what he perceived as the company’s slights, a top executive outlined the scenario in an e-mail to colleagues.

“If he is in fact worth half a billion dollars to (AstraZeneca),” the company’s U.S. sales chief wrote in 2001, “we need to put him in a different category.” To avoid scaring Reinstein away, he said, the firm should answer “his every query and satisfy any of his quirky behaviors.”

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