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  • Mel Smith surrenders to the smoking police

    08/08/2006 3:36:01 AM PDT · by vimto · 17 replies · 887+ views
    The Times ^ | August 08, 2006 | Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter
    Mel Smith surrenders to the smoking police By Jack Malvern, Arts Reporter Mel Smith, who is playing Churchill, smokes out of a window in the Assembly Rooms after the performance of Allegiance ASHLEY COOMBES / EPICSCOTLAND CHURCHILL did not win the war by kowtowing to pettifogging bureaucracy. He smoked that cigar wherever he pleased, and puffed its cloud with the insouciance of a man who knew he was in charge. But then the Greatest Englishman only had to deal with the likes of Hitler and Stalin; he had the good fortune to live in the days before the Scottish Parliament...
  • Latest in college education: Sex Week

    02/18/2006 4:40:39 AM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 15 replies · 768+ views
    msnbc.com ^ | 18 February 2006
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. - In a lecture hall on Yale’s storied Old Campus, not long after an afternoon astronomy class has cleared out, a middle-aged sex toy saleswoman demonstrates her technique and hands out free products to an eager crowd. “I want you to close your eyes,” Patty Brisben playfully instructs a young man as she rubs scented lotion into his forearm and, to raucous laughter, reaches for an electric toy and a glove. “Fantasize about having an all-over body massage.” Welcome to Sex Week at Yale, a biennial celebration that has become one of the most provocative campus events...