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An attempt to void the contract would entail a long, adversarial, further-distracting fight before an arbitrator… which the team would likely lose, anyway.
Arbitrators have hardly backed away from challenging the NBA and its teams, even in cases as outrageous as Latrell Sprewell’s physical assault on Coach PJ Carlesimo.
After the Warriors voided Spree’s contract, arbitrator John Feerick, the dean of the Fordham Law School, not only reinstated the contract but shortened Stern’s year-long suspension to the balance of that 1997-98 season.
Nor do the few precedents from similar cases look helpful.
In the fall of 2006, Stephen Jackson, then in Indiana, pleaded guilty to felony recklessness for firing his gun in the air to break up a fight outside a strip club… which also violated his probation for his part in the 2004 Auburn Hills Riot.

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Sooo, proof that Susan Sarandon has been maybe having a bit of a tough time since her breakup? The fact that the 63 year old actress went onstage at “Of Montreal’s” Tuesday night show at the Highline Ballroom and spanked two performers dressed like pigs with a ruler.
One could make the argument that Sarandon has always been a little kooky, given that she starred in Rocky Horror Picture Show, and has gone to stripper classes with her daughter. Still, for those of us who grew up in the 90s, it’s hard to reconcile this bad-ass persona with the woman we identify as mother characters from Little Women and Stepmom.
*Since summer, we have been trying to come up with the correct generalized colloquial spelling for the abbreviated version of “the usual.” “The Yoojz” was the best we could come up with (after spending WAY too much time arguing). Well, do YOU have a better suggestion??? Let us know!

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It’s been said that this whole incident wasn’t as serious as the New York Post initially reported, which said both players pointed guns at each other. Nonetheless, the incident yielded serious consequences for obvious reasons. Arenas’ 50-game suspension is the NBA’s third most severe suspension not involving drugs, behind Ron Artest’s 86-game suspension for his role in the brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills in 2004 and Latrell Sprewell’s choking of Warriors Coach P.J. Carlesimo in 1997 that ultimately resulted in a 68-game suspension. Meanwhile, Crittenton’s 38-game suspension is the league’s fourth highest. Before this incident, Stephen Jackson’s seven-game suspension for his felony count for criminal reckless driving and firing seven shots near an Indianapolis strip club in 2006 counted as the league’s longest suspension for a gun-related offense.

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The trend took off two years ago, when the Hankyu department store opened in Osaka, Japan, with its entire 16,000 square meters of floor space devoted to masculine products from shoes to cigars. Soon after, Louis Vuitton opened its first men-only store inside Hankyu, replete with leather furniture, pure wool carpet, and a goatskin rug. Around the same time, the British fashion queen Vivienne Westwood, who can spot a forward-looking trend seasons away, also opened her first store geared for men in Tokyo.
Now others are catching on. On Feb. 9, Hermès will open its first men-only store on Madison Avenue in New York. Housed in a classic brownstone, the 817-square-meter interior will resemble a cross between a traditional tailor’s shop and a gentlemen’s club, reimagined with a contemporary vibe. The fourth floor, designed to evoke the feel of a private home, will be devoted to made-to-measure wear, including bespoke suits as well as special-order items like luggage. Meanwhile, a few blocks uptown, Ralph Lauren has announced plans to convert its landmark Rhinelander mansion into a shop for men only, a move that underscores the importance of the menswear market to the company.

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The Glass family saga has been celebrated and derided over the years, but the reputation of The Catcher in the Rye seems set to endure as the classic novel of teenage rebellion. It heralded something new and different in serious literature – a modern vernacular voice, hesitant, shrugging, slangy, occasionally obscene – narrating a story in the first person as though talking to the reader, complete with a full repertoire of verbal tics like “goddam” and “or something”. It told the story of Holden Caulfield, a troubled teenage scholar who has been expelled from his preparatory school in Pennsylvania and, instead of heading home, goes walkabout in New York. He has encounters with a young prostitute, with his old English master (who makes what seems to be a sexual pass at him in the middle of the night) and his adored younger sister, Phoebe; only at the conclusion do we learn that Holden is currently being treated in some kind of sanitarium. …

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It wasn’t hard to see why no one would leap to hang out with him. If I did, it was out of the polite notion that one should finish what one started—in this case a mopey book about a teenage boy. Of course, the reason anyone my age read Salinger in the ’60s was because he was considered slightly racy. Holden swears a lot. He meets a prostitute. He drinks. But he never seems like he has a good time doing any of this. Rereading some of the book recently, I thought Salinger did a fine job of describing the particulars of teenage alienation and frustration, but when I read all that as a teenager, I just remember thinking that this was all stuff I was running from, not anything I wanted to go hunting for in a novel.

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Alex Poch-Goldin plays Mr. Marks, an Orthodox Jewish textile merchant. An award-winning actor, playwright and librettist, he was recently nominated for the 2008 Siminovitch Award. Poch-Goldin starred in The Canadian Stage Company productions of Angels in America, Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Six Degrees of Separation, Wit, Anybody and Nobody and was a Canadian Stage OAC Playwright-in-Residence. Other credits include: Scorched (Tarragon Theatre/national tour), his opera The Shadow was produced by Tapestry New Opera, and his play The Right Road to Pontypool was produced by 4th Line Theatre and will enjoy a remount this summer. Film and television credits include The Untitled Work of Paul Sheppard, Traitor, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, Living in Your Car and Wonderland.
Lisa Berry makes her Canadian Stage debut as Mayme, a jazz singer who works as a prostitute. Theatre credits include: Doubt, a parable (The Neptune Theatre/The Globe Theatre); The Crucible (Shaw Festival); The Odyssey (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); Les Liasons Dangereuses (Annex Theatre); Anne of Green Gables (Bathurst Street Theatre); and the European Tour of Fame the …

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The New York Inn near Times Square rents rooms for as low as $69 a night. But you get what you pay for, in this case, drugs, rats and prostitution, according to one TripAdviser reviewer. (Someone should really make a coffee-table book out of these reviews; a lot of them are hilarious!) Here’s one account:
we were greeted on our arrival by a cleaner sitting on our bed smoking and watching tv. the door to our room did not lock properly and could easily be opened by anyone applying force. every morning our bathroom was soaked as the bathroom from the room above us leaked into ours. on one of the days of our trip my boyfriend was offered heroin while we entered the hotel!!!!!!! also we were awoken one night by sex orgy going on which probably involved the prostitutes that line up outside the hotel (in front of the xxx rated porn shops located next to the hotel) if all this does not convince you to not stay here then maybe the fact that we had mice/rats in our room will help change your decision!!!!!

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Spitzer Sounds Off On Love, Paterson, Obama and Democrats
Updated 5:16 PM EST, Thu, Jan 28, 2010
The Love Gov is opening up.
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is candidly speaking on an array of topics in sprawling video featured on the website bigthink.com.
And, appropriately, the former politician isn’t just talking about government, he’s also dishing on romance.
Spitzer who resigned  from office in 2008 amid the revelation of a tryst he had with a prostitute, nervously laughed after stating this remark: “The exaltation of first meeting and falling in love is I think everyone that would admit is different than the feelings that you might have after 25 years. When my wife watches this, she may say ‘What are you talking about?’ But it is.”
On the topic of love, Spitzer said, “I don’t think it’s one of these feelings that you sense when you meet somebody and there is a response that is different, and is unique, and is palpable. And that changes over time.”

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… Certain information has been discovered that tends to lend some support to that claim,” Assistant District Attorney Peter Casolaro wrote in a letter to Minor’s defense team.
Cops found the mutilated body of Jeff Locker, 52, slumped behind the wheel of his 2007 Dodge Magnum in East Harlem last July. The victim, a married father with three children, was discovered bound and strangled with seven stab wounds.  Dtectives on the scene believed the brutal nature of the crime screamed foul play.
Soon after the slaying, police arrested Minor, 36, and charged him with first-degree murder. Detectives believed Minor, who was seen on security cameras both inside Locker’s sedan and later using his ATM card, killed Locker for cash. They speculated Locker was en route to a meeting with a prostitute when Minor tortured him for the pin.  

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