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This is a sport in which owners and front-office executives have mismanaged franchises into financial ruin, but the fall-back plan never changes: The public always wants to believe the worst of the NBA’s players, and they’re given the ammo to validate stereotypes. As much as anything, Arenas and the union gave the commissioner the pulpit to grandstand on gun control when past punishments were arbitrary and modest.
From
with a loaded gun on a team flight, to
playing shoot-‘em-up outside an Indy strip club, Stern never reacted so much to the severity of the transgressions as he did to the severity of the publicity. Stern doesn’t always play to the problems, but the public outcry. He’s a master manipulator of the message and the NBA messengers. Feel free to pound away on players, coaches and executives on NBA.com, but don’t you dare criticize the commissioner and his owners.

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Although many New Yorkers can call themselves cultural authorities, New York is also home to a select few intellectual authorities: scholars who have devoted their studies to illustrating this often forgotten New York City, and its catalysts for historical change.
The Eye interviewed six of these professors, asking them which landmarks they believed are the most important and compelling—and yet most overlooked—in the recent history of New York.
Roosevelt Island
At one point in time, New York City exported most of its problems to Roosevelt Island, now a cozy off-shore town. The small strip of land in the East River—known first as Blackwell’s Island, then Welfare Island in 1921, and Roosevelt Island in 1973—housed some of the city’s most famous “undesirables” in its penitentiary: Boss Tweed, Mae West, and Billie Holiday, who served a four-month term for prostitution charges.

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ProstitutionThe geography of European prostitution is changing. So says a report by Tampep, a body that supports migrant sex workers in Europe. In 2006, Russia was the most common country of origin for sex workers, followed by Ukraine and Romania. By 2008, the EU had expanded and the new EU member states Romania and Bulgaria were in the top three.
In older EU countries, 70 per cent of prostitutes are migrants, so the effects of the EU’s changing make-up are unsurprising. What is less expected is the report’s take on criminalising prostitutes‘ clients. New to the UK but already in place in Finland and Norway, the report calls such laws “legislation . . . [that] harms the very people it seeks to protect”, by driving parts of the industry underground. As the law is intended to help women who may have been trafficked, the body’s opinion is a significant, if worrying, addition to the debate.

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As Spitzer spoke, audience members penned questions on small note cards collected by moderator Mary Cranston, a lawyer and former chair of the Commonwealth Club board. There were some finance-related questions, but as it turned out, even this genteel audience couldn’t resist inquiring about the scandal. “I have a number of questions around your resignation as governor of New York,” Cranston said. “Obviously it was a difficult circumstance…What advice do you have for young people considering political careers? Although he said he wasn’t the one to give advice, Spitzer warned of risks and temptations inherent in an otherwise noble profession. “Be smarter than I was,” he said.
Cranston didn’t drop the issue. “America loves a rebirth story,” she said. “Will you go back into elected politics?” “Absolutely not on the horizon,” Spitzer said. That was disappointing to Barbara Collins, an East Bay woman interviewed after the event. “He should be back in politics, definitely,” she said. “He’s one of the few who actually went after anybody in power.” As for the prostitution thing, Collins said, “it’s really not anybody’s business but his.”

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P & P: We hope so! We’d love to have book signings in LA and SF where people can meet us and some of the people in the book. We’ll keep you posted!
On Friday, April 2, 2010, “Off the Set” will be available in bookstores and online. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon right now. The hardbound fine-art photography book features more than 100 photos, several essays written by the stars themselves, and a foreword written by author, adult filmmaker and sex educator Tristan Taormino. A portion of the sale price of each book will be donated to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM), a non-profit corporation founded in 1998 to care for the physical and emotional needs of people who work in the adult entertainment industry.

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Both players will be suspended without pay, a significant punishment in both cases, but more so for Arenas who is in the second year of a six year, $111 million contract and stands to lose roughly $10 million while serving out the suspension.
Arenas and Crittenton’s suspensions rank as the third and fourth longest handed down in league history, behind those of Ron Artest, who was suspended following the infamous player and fan brawl at the Palace in Auburn Hills when he charged into the stands during a game between the Pacers and Pistons and the suspension of former NBA player Latrell Sprewell who was suspended for attempting to choke his head coach PJ Carlesimo during a practice session.  The length of the suspensions exceed, by far, the longest handed down for any weapons violation – a seven game suspension received by then-Pacer guard Stephen Jackson following his plead to a felony criminal recklessness count after discharging a gun outside a strip club in Indianapolis.

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Wednesday, the Wizards, now in the hands of the family of late owner Abe Pollin, suggested they’re considering it.
“We’re still exploring all our options,” said team President Ernie Grunfeld. “We haven’t made any decisions up to this point.”
The team issued a statement, saying it supports Stern’s decision, noting the players’ “poor judgment has also violated the trust of our fans and stands in contrast to everything Abe Pollin stood for throughout his life.”
Nevertheless, league and union officials agree the Wizards would have a high bar to clear before an arbitrator and no precedent for voiding a contract in similar cases.
In 2007, Stephen Jackson was suspended for seven games after pleading guilty to felony recklessness after firing his gun in the air to break up a fight outside an Indianapolis strip club.

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The perennial cougar split with her long-time partner and father of her two sons Tim Robbins recently, only to be linked to a 31-year-old ping-pong aficionado in the news. Susan’s publicist quickly quashed rumors of her romance with the paddle champ, but still, it’s a nice change of pace when the media posits that a 63-year-old woman is dating a man half her age.
In an interview on David Letterman’s show promoting The Lovely Bones, Susan said she’d taken pole-dancing lessons with her daughter, Eva Amurri, who disclosed her assets often as a stripper with David Duchovny on Californication. But Eva’s mom, who ran around in her undies once-upon-a-time for half of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has got even more verve in her. Clad in hot school marm garb and glasses, Susan turned up at indie rock band Of Montreal’s show in New York City, stepped on stage and spanked grown men in pig suits.

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Physically, the iPad resembles a large iPod touch, with a 9.7-inch multi-touch screen that, curiously, offers a 4:3 standard aspect ratio rather than the expected widescreen display. (It runs at 1024 x 768 resolution.) The device is also oddly ugly, for an Apple product, with a very wide bezel around all four sides of the display.
Apple is offering a whopping six different versions of the device, at prices that range from $499 for a stripper model with a lowly 16 GB of storage and no 3G wireless connection (all iPads do offer 802.11n connectivity however) to a more Apple-esque $829 model with 64 GB of storage and 3G. Of course, 3G connectivity is not included in the price (as is the case with Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader), though Apple is offering some affordable pay-as-you-go plans, including 250 MB of data for $15 per month and unlimited data for $30 per month. These plans can be started up and stopped at any time, and do not require a contract. Sadly, they are available through AT&T only.

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