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Guilty pleasures
I just like seeing girls flip out when they don't get the right dress or big enough rocks, and how SPOILED they are." Watching them makes her grateful for her own upbringing. "Brat" wasn't allowed, she says. She even has a favorite episode. "It's hysterical. This blonde bimbo had a flip out at a bachelor party, screaming, then crying. Then she sent everyone home. Yup, it's a train wreck." Jessica Vassillion of Dover says her thing is "Days of Our Lives." After a hard day on her feet she heads home to unwind before the taped show. "I don't even bother to hide it really. I've been watching it forever on and off," hooked at her grandmother's knee at the tender age of 9. "It's a silly, repeating storyline. But the characters are part of my life," she says laughing. "You can watch once every six months and ...; keep up with it.
Abbey Road Live! captures the Beatles spirit, without the haircut
Less than a year after their 11th album �Abbey Road� was released in 1969, the Beatles announced their breakup. The band never performed the album live. Fast-forward 27 years to Athens, Ga., circa 1996. There, Abbey Road Live! � formed by four members of local rock band the Fuzzy Sprouts � hatch a plot to take the album to the stage. When somebody suggested an �Abbey Road�-themed concert, Michael Wegner (guitarist/keyboardist) said he was more than a little skeptical. �My response originally was, �Are you kidding? We can�t pull that off,� � he said, laughing. �In my mind, it was like �Abbey Road� was the pinnacle of the Beatles� creativity.� After careful listening, however, he discovered that, for all the studio polish, the album was �a straight-up rock record,� and its soul was in the lyrics, not the effects.
More Letters to the Editor
The callers wanted to discuss whether its use had implications for free speech or constituted sexual harassment in political campaigns. To quote the writer of a Forum column on the Viewpoints Page, Andi Zeisler, “Bitch is a word we use culturally to describe any woman who is strong, angry, uncompromising and often uninterested in pleasing men." Now, that's Hillary Clinton, and a lot of other women. A woman who has a better job than a man and doesn't apologize for it. There are a lot of women out there like that. In my senior years, let me make a statement: If being an outspoken woman means being a bitch, I'll take that as a compliment. Flo Martinez Unjust sentence A Saudi judge sentenced a Shiite woman to six months in prison and 200 lashes. Her offense? She was gang-raped by seven men.
Challenges, not challengers, for Consolidated 4 trustees
While incumbents for seats on Orangeburg Consolidated School District 4's Board of Trustees do not face any challengers in Tuesday's election, they acknowledge facing many challenges in the coming years of service.Paul Bidwell, Mary Brant and board Vice Chairwoman Peggy Tyler say the district will have to tackle pressing issues such as school financing and mandates from the federal and state levels."I don't think it's one thing, it is a culmination of things," said trustee Mary Brant, who holds Seat 6, about what the district needs to accomplish in the near future.Seat 2 board member Tyler sees federal and state mandates on standards as one challenge. "They demand so much of us with the standards so set so high, it's hard to reach them," she said.With the property tax relief law, Act 388, capping the millage rates that local governments and school boards can set, the future of school financing is not clear, Bidwell said."We don't understand what Act 388 will do.
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