Cathie Black Gets Waiver to Serve as New York City Schools Chancellor

?Despite all the Sturm und Drang, Cathie Black is poised to become the next New York City schools chancellor. Education Commissioner David Steiner passed the waiver needed -- due to her lack of education experience -- today, despite his advisory panel (and scores of others) recommending he deny it.

On Friday, Mayor Bloomberg said that Black would appoint Shael Polakow-Suransky, who does have education experience, as senior deputy chancellor and chief academic officer.

Still, per NBC NY, "a Quinnipiac University Poll showed New Yorkers believed by a 2-1 margin that Black was not qualified for the job." And, as to be expected, the drama is not over. The Observer reports that a group of teachers will hold a news conference in front of Black's former HQ at the Hearst Tower tomorrow, to apply for her job. Given that soon-to-be-former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is actually joining Murdoch, this seems a little silly, but what do you expect given the state of education these days? Maybe they even have a point.

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Anne Hathaway and James Franco? Here Are 5 Pairs Better Suited to Host the Oscars.

?Today, Anne Hathaway and James Franco were named the hosts of this year's Academy Awards. The Daily News reports that Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer (the producers of the Oscars) said, "James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons -- fresh, exciting, and multi-talented." They also personify a combined age of 60. Here are 5 pairs that we'd choose over FrancAway.

John Stewart and Steven Colbert

Why the pair makes sense: Their Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear was an unprecedented success. Maybe the political duo could take their much needed viral buzz to the Oscar telecast and inject some life into it. Stewart hosted a good ceremony in 2007 and Colbert is never afraid to roast people sitting in the audience -- no matter who the person is.

Why they're better than FrancAway: Not only are they a lot funnier, Stewart and Colbert have amazing chemistry.

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Team Garmin-Cervelo Releases 2011 Team Jersey Design Sneak Peek

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Team Garmin-Cervelo Releases 2011 Team Jersey Design Sneak Peek

By Thomas A. Valentinsen
Nov 29, 2010 - 9:52:42 AM

Slipstream Sports - the company behind Team Garmin-Cervelo - earlier today released a sneak peek at the 2011 team jersey design.

Slipstream announced earlier this year that Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA will join forces for the 2011 season to create a new team which will be known as Team Garmin-Cervelo.

Surprisingly the team today chose to reveal a preview of the new 2011 team jersey which is designed and produced by Italian cycling clothing manufacturer Castelli. Castelli supplied team clothing to Cervelo TestTeam in 2009 and 2010.

Contrary to the 2010 Team Garmin-Transitions kit, the 2011 Team Garmin-Cervelo kit will not be orange and blue, but rather black, white and blue.

The non-cool argyle design, which secured Team Garmin-Transitions a reputation for being the team with the most untrendy team clothing design, will virtually vanish from the 2011 Team Garmin-Cervelo kit and will fortunately only appear on a small part of the jersey sleeves. Hopefully Team Lampre will also revise their kit design for 2011.

The full 2011 Garmin-Cervelo team kit will be introduced in January or early February, according to a Castelli spokesman.

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Now Is the Ideal Time to Initiate That Brief Holiday Fling

?Holiday season! Isn't it a gas? All joy and holly jolly and regular holly, and finally getting to wear the Christmas sweater you've been thinking about all year? Except...there is so much to worry about. Giving the right present. Getting the wrong present. Spending all that money that you don't have. Trying not to eat the poinsettias. And -- gasp -- BEING ALONE.

Yep, being alone. You may forget once you're ensconced in your childhood bedroom wearing footie PJs and plugging your ears while your parents bicker drunkenly that this was ever a concern of yours, but for right now, November 29, let it be known that according to those polled on Match.com (take that with many, many grains of salt), 48 percent of people were worried about not having a date for the holidays, reports the New York Post.

Other concerns:
--Finding a perfect present (kill two birds with one stone and don't do either!)
--Wanting a kiss on New Years more than they want a new laptop (really?)
--Heating the apartment without the use of a spare warm body (okay, that's just us)
--Dealing with their families
--Getting fat

The good news: If you are susceptible to the kind of worry that lends credence to a hypothetical fear of dying alone and being eaten by your cats before you have a chance to open any presents -- and the first step is admitting this to yourself -- traffic on Match.com goes up 23 percent at holiday time. Which means...NOW.

You've got five weeks 'til that perfect New Year's Eve kiss/New Year's Day descent into inevitable madness. Make it work. And thank Santa for the easy pickings. There's a reason the man in red says "Ho."

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Charles Rangel to Insist He's Not That Bad

?I am not a crook, Rep. Charles Rangel of Harlem hopes to tell the House of Representatives in "a last stand to salvage his reputation." Rangel plans to ask the ethics committee for time on the floor in order to explain that his 11 counts of financial and fundraising "misdeeds" are not as bad as his punishment makes it seem. The committee voted that Rangel be censured (one step below expulsion) though the 80-year-old insists that should be reserved for "bribery, accepting improper gifts, personal use of campaign funds and sexual misconduct." All he wants is a chance to explain. And that's when he can whip up the waterworks. Who can resist a crying octogenarian?

From the Associated Press via the New York Post:

The ethics committee, in explaining its recommendation, agreed in a report that the discipline usually is reserved for lawmakers who enrich themselves. In Rangel's case, the committee said, its decision was based on "the cumulative nature of the violations and not any direct personal financial gain."

Rangel wants a "reprimand" instead of a censure. What's the difference?

A censure goes beyond the vote and requires the disciplined member to appear at the front of the chamber -- called the "well" -- and receive an oral rebuke from the speaker that includes a reading of the resolution.

A reprimand is simply a vote of disapproval. It can be a separate resolution or a vote to adopt the ethics committee's findings. The punished lawmaker is not required to stand in the well.

In other words, politicians are big babies with bigger egos. Oh, and they get away with everything.

Rangel wants House to reject censure [NYP]

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Rightbloggers on WikiLeaks: Kill Julian Assange, But Not Till We Use His Stuff Against Obama

This weekend we got another fat load of WikiLeaks, based on purloined diplomatic cables to and from the U.S. State Department. As happened when Julian Assange's muckraking endeavor leaked U.S. military data from Iraq earlier this year, conservatives are outraged, and some call, as before, for the expeditious arrest of Assange, or fantasize about his assassination.

Rightbloggers generally take a two-pronged approach to the leaks: They believe the new document dump is an unpardonable breach of U.S. security -- except to the extent that it may be used to denigrate the Obama Administration, it which case they feel it deserves wider dissemination.

It's not as if rightbloggers have been alone in denouncing Wikileaks, as mainstream media outlets from the New York Times on down have attacked Assange from all directions -- while sopping up his revelations on the basis of their newsworthiness.

But that is an old, time-honored form of journalistic hypocrisy: Using hot news to draw readers with one hand, and tut-tutting its shameful provenance with the other. Rightbloggers have added a few new wrinkles to the game.

Back when Assange leaked the Iraq War data, for example, they dismissed the revelations of bad behavior by our Iraqi allies ("they appear to illustrate the inherent -- and forseeable -- problems with the nation-building strategy we pursued in Iraq and are still pursuing in Afghanistan," soothed The American Spectator), and cheerfully plucked the bits that supported their own interests.

The documents suggested to them that a previous, speculative accounting by The Lancet had overestimated real Iraqi casualties of the war, and that the discovery of some old chemical weapons proved that Saddam had WMDs after all. Counter-arguments could be made that The Lancet was measuring different kinds of casualties than the leaked documents addressed, and that the discovered chemical weapons did not constitute a real threat to the United States ("Later investigation revealed those contents to be vitamins"). But for rightbloggers the message was clear: "... the two biggest scoops from the latest document dump are that the infamous Lancet study was bogus, and that WMDs were found in Iraq in quantity."

They apparently thought Assange had made these revelations by accident or out of self-sabotage, as he was of the "Left" and thus was leaking on his own cause. "I delight in the unintended consequence Assange's revelations has produced," said Melanie Morgan. "It seems to be the Left contradicting itself in the propaganda arena," said Right Pundits. "The WikiLeaksters seem to have inadvertently done history a bit of a favor in the their obsession," said NewsBusters, in dispelling "leftist folklore."

None of this altered their feeling that by leaking this info Assange was aiding the enemy, and possible guilty of murder.

"Gosh, isn't it nice that the enemy will be able to identify Iraqis who died by name and whose side they were fighting on, so they can go after their families, either to kill them or recruit them, depending on the circumstances?" said BizzyBlog. "What a guy this Mr. Assange is." "Julian Assange: Jerkoff troop killer," wrote The North Star National.

?National Review's Jonah Goldberg asked, "Why wasn't Assange garroted in his hotel room years ago?" Goldberg asserted that the leaks were "going to get people killed, including brave Iraqis and Afghans who've risked their lives and the lives of their families to help us." Nonetheless, he lamented, "Even if the CIA wanted to take him out, they couldn't without massive controversy. That's because assassinating a hipster Australian Web guru as opposed to a Muslim terrorist is the kind of controversy no official dares invite."

(Goldberg tried to hop out of his own overheated logic train at the end -- "Ultimately, I don't expect the U.S. government to kill Assange, but I do expect them to try to stop him" -- and complained, when called out on his homicidal fantasy, that "there's nothing in the quote at Balloon Juice to justify the claim I call for [Assange's] murder." To shore up his position, he challenged a writer at Gawker to a fistfight.)

Last weekend the diplomatic leaks was released, and with them came the usual calls for Assange's death and/or detention. "Julian Assange, Why is He Still Breathing?" asked Paladin's Page. "Assange should be looking at the inside of a container on a ship doing lazy racetracks around the Indian Ocean," said Blackfive. "I won't think twice if Julian Assange meets the cold blade of an assassin," said Donald Douglas. Etc.

The Obama Administration denounced the leaks but, having not the stones to send a cold-bladed assassin to preempt Assange, failed to prevent them, which rightbloggers declared proof of the Kenyan Pretender's malfeasance or worse.

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Wikileaks' Latest Lands First Via Twitter, Followed By New York Times and Guardian

?Wikileaks planned their latest document dump -- consisting mostly of "cables," or candid behind-the-scenes diplomatic messages between the United States and its allies -- for late on Sunday afternoon, but as anyone on in the internet knows, everything happens early here. The leakers were hit by a leak this morning when copies of the German news magazine Der Spiegel hit newsstands early, and eager buyers began tweeting excerpts from the findings. Simultaneously, Wikileaks reported that they were "under a mass distributed denial of service attack" and their website was down. Likely as a result, the New York Times and the Guardian let their reports fly. A scattered breakdown so far of a hectic news afternoon is below:

The Times report comes in the form of a piece entitled "Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels," which bullet-points notable moments from the cables and explains that the leaks provide "an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats."

For example, here is the Times on the U.S.'s Guantanamo bargaining:

? Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of "Let's Make a Deal." Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in a group of detainees, cables from diplomats recounted. The Americans, meanwhile, suggested that accepting more prisoners would be "a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe."

The Times praises even the Wikileaks information that was not classified or entirely unknown writing, "Even when they recount events that are already known, the cables offer remarkable details."

The report also comes with "A Note to Readers" about the decision to publish the leaks:

But the more important reason to publish these articles is that the cables tell the unvarnished story of how the government makes its biggest decisions, the decisions that cost the country most heavily in lives and money. They shed light on the motivations -- and, in some cases, duplicity -- of allies on the receiving end of American courtship and foreign aid. They illuminate the diplomacy surrounding two current wars and several countries, like Pakistan and Yemen, where American military involvement is growing. As daunting as it is to publish such material over official objections, it would be presumptuous to conclude that Americans have no right to know what is being done in their name.

The Times reveals that they sent the Obama administration the cables they were planning to publish with redactions to protect national security. The administration then suggested additional redactions, to which the newspaper "agreed to some, but not all." The Times series is titled "State's Secrets" and is teased as a nine-day roll-out.

The Guardian, meanwhile, makes an interactive feature of "The U.S. emmbassy cables," including a database searchable by originating country and countries referenced in the cables.

The Times' own interactive document viewer can be accessed here.

The Guardian also explains how the leak came to be: "From a fake Lady Gaga CD to a thumb drive that is a pocket-sized bombshell."

Der Spiegel calls the disclosure "nothing short of a political meltdown for US foreign policy."

The Pentagon calls the leaks a "reckless disclosure of classified information illegally obtained," with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs saying, "We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information."

Expect much more of this madness as experts and concerned citizens continue to comb through this mass of information.

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Other Will Smith Arrested For Domestic Abuse, Actor/Musician/American Icon Must Be Pissed

?New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith was arrested early on Saturday morning and charged with domestic abuse battery after allegedly grabbing his wife by the hair and dragging her away from a nightclub. An estimated 1,000 people, centered mostly in Hollywood but also across the nation, did a double-take at newspapers and websites today, wondering how the Fresh Prince could betray them so and if Jada Pinkett is okay. Different guy, though in a dark situation there is some humor in imagining the "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" Smith exclaiming, "Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks!"

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Alberto Contador Submits Official Defense Documents in Doping Case

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Alberto Contador Submits Official Defense Documents in Doping Case

By AP and Roadcycling.com
Nov 26, 2010 - 2:40:12 PM

Alberto Contador has submitted his official defense for a failed 2010 Tour de France doping test, giving the Spanish Cycling Federation documents he claims will show clenbuterol contaminated meat is to blame.

Alberto Contador spokesman Jacinto Vidarte earlier today said that Contador accompanied his lawyers to the federation's headquarters to hand over the necessary documentation.

The 27-year-old Spanish cyclist risks losing this year's Tour de France title and could face a two-year ban from pro road cycling if found guilty of using clenbuterol, a banned muscle-building and weight-loss steroid.

Contador says beef bought from Spanish border town Irun caused the failed July 21 test.

The Spanish Cycling Federation's disciplinary committee had opened the case earlier this month.

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Turkey Heart Found in Chalk Heart Outline

?Gothamist has what looks to us like the work of an angry, animal rights obsessed high schooler (not that we'd know) in Westchester, New York. Yes, that is the actual heart of a turkey, centered in a larger, more cartoonish chalk heart, as if it were a crime scene. It reads like a Look what you've done! on this Thanksgiving weekend, though Gothamist seems giddy and eager to include the heart-in-a-heart as part of a "recent streak of ritualistic animal killings" in the New York area. Hm!

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Body Found in NY Might Be Missing Student (UPDATE: Ex-Boyfriend Charged With Murder)

?Jenni-Lyn Watson's family members will be shown a body found on Saturday in Clay, New York, to determine if it is the missing student, last seen on November 19, according to the New York Post. A search party 100-strong has been examining the area north of Syracuse hoping to find Watson, a junior at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. "If I start talking, I won't be able to finish. It's too emotional," said a relative of Watson's in Syracuse. An autopsy on the body is scheduled to begin today. [NYP]

UPDATE: The body is believed to be Watson and her ex-boyfriend, 21-year-old Steven M. Pieper, has been charged with murder. He will be arraigned on Sunday.

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Win the Ultimate Mountain Bike Christmas Giveaway

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Win the Ultimate Mountain Bike Christmas Giveaway

By RoadCycling.com
Nov 26, 2010 - 3:17:01 PM

Click here to access the giveaway.

In this amazing giveaway one lucky cyclist will have the chance of winning a complete bike as CRC is giving away a Turner 5 Spot frame, Marzocchi 44 RC3 Ti forks, a DT Swiss EX1750 wheelset, Chromag: Fubars, Ranger Stem, Lynx DT Saddle and Seat Clamp, Hope Tech M4 183mm F and R Floating Rotors Braided Hoses, Schwalbe Nobby Nic 2.25 tyres, Continental Xking tyres, Wellgo MG1 Magnesium Pedals, North Shore Billet Disc Brake Adaptors, Renthal 34t Chainring, a set of Kore Torsion Riser Bars, an Elite Aheadset Stem and finally a set of ODI Lock On grips.

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James Taylor at Madison Square Garden, with Carole King, Abigale Haness, Danny Kortchmar

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March 18, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 11

Sweet Brother James
By Don Heckman

The prospect of James Taylor at Madison Square Garden didn't strike me as one of the most enlightened ideas of recent memory. Not, of course, that there was any question about his ability to sell out that cavernous wind chamber. In the last few months he has become the virtual darling of the overground media, so the potential audience was, in the New York area, at least, probably not all that much smaller than for the previous Monday night's Ali-Frazier match.

No, I wasn't so much concerned about the size of Taylor's audience as I was about the size of the environment and the effect it would have upon the music (and, obviously, upon the poor souls who were sitting somewhere up near the area of the Empire State Building).

Well, for once it worked. With the help of Joshua Television's huge screen and three mobile cameras, it was possible for everyone in the place to get a pretty good view -- live or electronic; more important, Taylor's extraordinary charm and good nature made the size of the hall irrelevant. I'm quite sure he communicated just as much sheer magnetic presence to the very last rows as he did to the front. And that, I would say, is the key to Taylor's snowballing career. I feel quite convinced that he could come on stage, rap a bit with the audience, flash those startling blue eyes, and have most audiences in the palm of his hand -- without singing a note. No matter what his recent public biographical comments to the contrary may suggest, Taylor was born to perform and he does it with the natural, unaffected joy of a dolphin skimming through an ocean wave.

And, for once, I can report that the back-up (or warm-up or whatever) acts were a pleasure to hear. I have spent so much time listening to groups that have about five minutes of music to play struggle through hourlong sets, while waiting for the main act to appear, that I was on the verge of getting awfully cynical about the quality of new talent arriving these days. But Taylor's show was a complete joy, from start to finish. Jo Mama, a group that didn't particularly impress me on their first recording, sounded very close to brilliant "live." Danny Kootch has worked out a quite fascinating guitar style that lies mid-point in that still ill-defined territory between jazz and rock. (He is, for example, one of the few rock guitarists I've heard who can play impressively swinging double-time runs.) And singer Gail (or is it Abigail?) Haness is on the verge of breaking into major stardom. She looks great, sings great, and knows, as all fine singers should, how to hurt you.

Carole King -- she of all those hits from the early, mid, and late '60s -- writes better than she sings, but the songs were such lovely examples of the craft of contemporary songwriting that the general blandness of her singing style (and the occasional unpredictability of her rhythms) could easily be overlooked.

And then there was James Taylor. He involved himself in the whole show, by the way, introducing each of the acts and avoiding the phony sort of star build-up that infected the Stones in their MSG appearance. He did all the familiar songs, added a few new ones (a humorous one about a chili dog and one about hearing himself on a jukebox), and made us feel as though we were all his friends. In the face of that kind of charisma (there's that word again) it's hard to retain much critical objectivity. But I did come out of the Garden with the feeling that Taylor's strengths are centered in his ability and presence as a performer far more than in his skills as a songwriter. Good as some of the tunes are, ther is a certain predictability in his choice of melodies and chord patterns that one is rarely aware of in the work of -- to make a really outrageous comparison -- Joni Mitchell. I was more reminded, in fact, of Elton John, who also has written a few good songs but who seems unable to shake off the stylistic repetitiveness of his composing style. And John, unfortunately, lacks Taylor's performing magic.

A minor criticism, for the moment. I hope it doesn't become a major one, but it will if Taylor is too impressed with his press clippings to continue to work before live audiences. We need his music -- oh yes we do -- but I suspect he needs our reactions too.

Caveat Emptor. If you still love Elton John, don't let the association of his name with a new film called "Friends" sucker you into seeing it. I won't quite go so far as to say it's the worst film I've ever seen, but it comes close. Would you believe at least three scenes in which the lovers approach each other from opposite sides of the screen, running, in slow motion, to a clinch in which he spins her round and round -- okay, enough. John's music is dull, unrepresentative, and couldn't save the film anyhow, so don't bother.

[Each weekday morning, we post an excerpt from another issue of the Voice, going in order from our oldest archives. Visit our Clip Job archive page to see excerpts back to 1956.]

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Alberto Contador Contends Innocence

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Alberto Contador Contends Innocence

By AP and Roadcycling.com
Nov 26, 2010 - 1:29:02 AM

Alberto Contador reiterated his innocence Thursday over his failed doping test at the 2010 Tour de France and slammed Team Astana for abandoning him once the news broke.

The 27-year-old Spanish cyclist is facing a two-year ban and risks losing his third Tour de France title after testing positive for the banned drug clenbuterol, which he claims came from contaminated meat.

Contador labeled the charges as "absolutely ridiculous" and felt the entire episode had discredited him.

"I don't doubt [my innocence] for one second because I did not do anything irregular at any time," Contador said in an interview broadcast by Spanish national broadcaster TVE. "Never."

He looked to be fighting back tears when asked if he would follow up his threat to quit the sport if punished.

"It's early to say that but," said Contador, stopping to reflect on his words with his voice cracking. "I can't say for sure ... that I'll continue."

Contador took a swipe at his Kahzak-based team for failing to provide any support after he announced in September that he had failed a July 21 drug test. Contador had signed a two-year deal to ride with Danish outfit Saxo Bank from 2011 by that point.

"I've always given my most in every event over the last three years," said Contador, who rode for Astana over that time but was unable to defend his 2007 Tour title after it was barred due to a number of doping scandals. "[But] it was no surprise to me" they have failed to defend him.

Contador is hoping a decision on his case by the Spanish cycling federation's disciplinary committee will be reached before the end of the year but still expected the case to stretch regardless of the verdict.

"I've never thought that this won't be resolved in a favorable way -- I can't go on thinking any other way," Contador said, adding he will meet with the disciplinary committee on Friday.

Contador, who is accused of using the muscle-building and weight-loss drug from a test taken one day before a crucial mountain stage, also won the Tour in 2007 and '09 for Astana. The beef was bought from the Spanish border town of Irun.

He added that he had been exchanging messages with Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck (Team Leopard Racing/Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project) throughout the ordeal.

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Before Roe v. Wade: Fighting Over Abortion in Albany

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March 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 12

A holy war in Albany for the 'Right to Life'
By Robin Reisig

The New York State legislature is probably going to practice medicine again this spring. Abortion medicine.

Catholics opposed to killing "the baby cradled in his mother's womb," some establishment doctors complaining of "hazardous" operations, and feminists complaining that the law is too restrictive are all putting pressure on lawmakers to change the abortion law. The approximately 30 proposed abortion laws brewed up by the medicine men in Albany range from bills that would allow no abortions except to save the mother's life to crackpot bills that would add weird restrictions to the law to bills that would remove all restrictions on abortions.

A bill which would restrict abortions to the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, instead of 24 weeks as the present law allows, is given a good chance of passing by most observers. So is a "conscience clause" which would state that no hospital or medical person could be forced to perform an abortion. (This unnecessary clause could lead to legal sanction of the policies of hospitals like St. Vincent's which, despite their government funding as community hospitals, refuse to give aid on birth control.)

Several residency requirement bills, bills that would restrict abortions to hospitals, and a 12-week limitation on abortions have also been introduced. So have bills removing all restrictions on when, where, and by whom abortions may be performed.

Zany, restrictive amendments that stand little or no chance of passing have also been introduced. These include a bill that would prohibit a woman from receiving Medicaid for an abortion; a bill that would prohibit a mother from receiving an extra personal income tax exemption if an aborted fetus lived; and a bill forbidding an abortion on a woman whose husband ha told the doctor that he didn't want the abortion.

Medical reasons are advanced for most of these restrictive bills, but opponents feel the real impetus moving most of the legislators involved is not doctors but the Catholic church. Only one assemblyman was knocked off by Catholic groups in the November election because of his vote on abortion. ("Abort Balletta," bumper stickers said. The voters did.) Assemblywoman Constance Cook has shown that others apparently lost votes because they voted against abortion reforms. Yet a few legislators who were hounded because of their votes for abortion reform and received smaller margins than usual in November rushed to get back into the good graces of the church by supporting restrictions to the law. They have at least the tacit blessing of the church, which admits it hopes to restrict the number of abortions by adding restrictions to the law. Or, as Monsignor Thomas McGovern, spokesman for the archdiocese of New York, put it, "Anything less than abortion on demand is better than nothing."

...Elsewhere around the nation, abortion laws are tumbling, but those who know that God is on their side -- the Right to Life Committees an Friends of the Fetus, the Voices of the Unborn and the wooden-cross-wielding Sons of Thunder -- have not given up their holy war and have even won some victories.

In Orange County, California, compliant voter registrars showed up at 14 Catholic churches one Sunday last fall to give voters a chance to switch their registrations. During mass, priests exhorted voters to turn Republican in order to protest the adoption of an "abortion on demand" plank at the state Democratic convention.

"Kill referendum 20, not me," blared billboards in the state of Washington last fall. The billboards showed a fetus cradled in a bloody hand. Voters, revolted, voted in a reform law.

In Iowa last month, the hard-sell tactics of the church were more effective. A reform bill, endorsed by both political parties and the governor, was killed in the house after Right to Life groups sent busloads of blind and crippled children up to the legislature and (according to a letter the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws received from a prominent clergyman) priests passed out anti-abortion petitions during mass and said parishioners couldn't leave the sanctuary until they signed.

Defiance of the law is growing. One year ago the New York Telephone Company practiced law by refusing to list the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion in the telephone book. Now clergy consultation services are listed in 24 states. Only two clergymen have been arrested for counseling abortions: the last arrest was one and a half years ago. Neither clergyman was prosecuted.

What will become of all the turmoil in Albany on the abortion issue? Senate Majority Leader Earl Brydges has said he wants the law made more restrictive, and Brydges usually gets what he wants. On the other hand, Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea has indicated that he doesn't want to be wrung through the abortion debate again. "The goddamned debate," "the most traumatic experience I've ever had in Albany," other legislators called it. "With people talking of little babies in trash cans, it's got to reach you, no matter how intellectual and sophisticated you think you are," said one senator. "No one wants to go through that again, with Republicans cursing Republicans..."

Many observers feel it will take a Supreme Court decision to resolve the abortion issue entirely, and to enforce the oft-repeated words of Florynce Kennedy: "The legislature should get its hairy fist out of women's private matters."

[Each weekday morning, we post an excerpt from another issue of the Voice, going in order from our oldest archives. Visit our Clip Job archive page to see excerpts back to 1956.]

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The Craziest Black Friday Moments of All Time

?Everyone knows the Friday after Thanksgiving is the "best time" to buy gifts for the holidays (can't beat a $3 toaster!) but it seems that people just keep upping the crazy ante in such a way that makes us want to stay the hell away. Like the two women in Florida who started camping outside a Best Buy -- 9 days early. Stop the insanity! Here's a look at some of our nation's blackest days in Black Friday history.

Toys R Us Double Shooting

Like a ghetto version of the toy fight scene in Jingle All the Way, two Californian men got into a heated gun battle in the middle of a Toys R Us in 2008. No one else was hurt but they managed to kill each other after shooting up the electronics department.

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Derek Jeter: Greedy, Unreasonable, Unrealistic

?"This is the way the Yankees want the conversation about Derek Jeter to go," writes Mike Lupica in today's Daily News. "They have arrived at what they think is a fair contract for Jeter and if he doesn't accept it, he's being greedy and unreasonable and unrealistic, and should go test the market."

Lupica, of course, doesn't care a whit about Derek Jeter, but he's happy to have an opportunity to use him as a club to bash the Yankees. Ironically, for once he's right.

Derek Jeter is being greedy, unreasonable, and unrealistic. And if he goes out to test the market he's only going to be humiliated. What he's going to find is that the market, for all intents and purposes, is the New York Yankees.

Let me say it plain: Derek Jeter had been my daughter's favorite player since she was old enough to recognize his baseball card (and mine, as well), and it's going to make us both soul-sick if he winds up anywhere but in the Bronx. And anyone who has read this space over the years knows that I'm all for players making all the money they can while they can.

That said, the Yankees' offer of $45 million for three years is fair, and Jeter knows it. One very simple fact proves that: he won't get that money from anyone else. Jeter is not only less than an average shortstop, he batted just .270 last year with very little power and has limited range in the field - and he's likely to be even less so as he gets older.

As I've had occasion to note, no team has ever won a championship with a shortstop as old as Jeter will be next year. Not only is he going to be commanding a big chunk of money if he accepts the Yankees odder, he's going to be blocking the development of a new player at a key position for the next few years. Because, let's fact the truth, Jeter not only can't play shortstop that well anymore, he can't really play any other position.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you will remember a couple of years ago Alex Rodriguez let Scott Boras push him into declaring himself a free agent so Boras could bully the Yankees into pumping up A-Rod's deal. What they found, of course, is that since no one else was going to match the Yankees offer, they had to compromise with the front office. And Rodriguez's worth a few years ago is a hell of a lot more than Jeter's worth right now. The least that needs to be said is that Rodriguez finally put a clamp on his agent and told him to seal the deal. He at least showed a tad of humility. That's exactly what Jeter needs to do now.

"You know," Lupica writes in that cloying rhetorical manner, "who's the only one who can fix this now? Hal Steinbrenner." No, Mike, the only one who can fix this mess is Derek Jeter himself. He needs to acknowledge that he is now at best a mediocre ballplayer, that he needs to take a pay cut, and that $45 million is, after all, a lot of money and a fair price for his market value - a more than fair price.

Jeter's agent, Casey Close, made a bad comparison a few days ago when he said that his client was as great a figure in Yankee lore as Babe Ruth. For the sake of argument, let's say that that is true. Well, Close and Jeter and virtually everyone else in the New York media seems to forget that there came a time in 1935 when Babe Ruth was no longer the most valuable player in baseball and the Yankees dealt him to the Boston Braves. And the Babe was a more valuable player at age 39 than Jeter is now.

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Team Saxo Bank-SunGard Completes 2011 Roster

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Team Saxo Bank-SunGard Completes 2011 Roster

By Thomas A. Valentinsen
Nov 24, 2010 - 2:59:46 AM

Team Saxo Bank-SunGard today revealed its complete rider roster for the upcoming 2011 season. Alberto Contador confirmed as participating in upcoming Saxo Bank-SunGard training camp. Tour de France stage winner and former yellow jersey holder Michael Rasmussen (Denmark) remains blacklisted.?

Earlier today Team Saxo Bank-SunGard revealed its complete rider roster for the upcoming 2011 season. With this week's addition of Matteo Tosatto the 2011 team will consist of a total of 25 riders, who, according to team representatives, together will constitute a strong and very diverse group with expertise in all terrains and in all types of races.

"I'm really proud of this group of riders, and I'm very much looking forward to begin working with these guys, so we are perfectly ready for next year," Team Saxo Bank-SunGard and Riis Cycling owner Bjarne Riis commented.

The first task for the new team is waiting just around the corner. On Sunday a 14-day session kicks off at Playitas on Fuerteventura, where superb facilities and a wonderful climate provide ideal conditions for team building before the coming season.

Both Riis Cycling's staff and all Team Saxo Bank-SunGard riders will participate, including Alberto Contador, who is still accused of doping.

"I think it is important, that we all remember, that Alberto is not guilty until a judgment is made that indicates something otherwise. This has been the message from the UCI, and I think we should all respect that. We have also met with the UCI, and they have assured us that there are no problems in taking Alberto to our team building camp," Riis continued.

Riss added "It's an incredibly important camp for the team and our entire organization. It is the first time that we all get together and a great chance to get to know each other. This is where we create the complete foundation for our organization. Therefore, we will continue to work with our team building at Playitas."

Once again stage winner and former Tour de France yellow jersey holder Michael Rasmussen was left out in the cold in spite of negotiations to become part of Team Saxo Bank-SunGard having taken place in recent months. Michael Rasmussen is unfortunately still blacklisted in the world of pro cycling in spite of never having tested positive for doping.

Dane Michael Rasmussen definitely deserves a new chance in pro road cycling - much more so than many previous dopers who have been welcomed back in pro road cycling with open arms by many a team manager and many a grand tour organizer.

Complete 2011 Team Saxo Bank-SunGard Roster:
Alberto Contador (Spain)
Benjamin Noval (Spain)
Daniel Navarro (Spain)
Jesus Hernandez (Spain)
Gustav Larsson (Sweden)
Volodimir Gustov (Ukraine)
Juan Jose Haedo (Argentina)
Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Argentina)
Richie Porte (Australia)
David Tanner (Australia)
Baden Cooke (Australia)
Nick Nuyens (Belgium)
Michael M?rk?v (Denmark)
Kasper Klostergaard (Denmark)
Mads Christensen (Denmark)
Brian Vandborg (Denmark)
André Steensen (Denmark)
Jonas Aaen (Denmark)
Chris Anker S?rensen (Denmark)
Nicki S?rensen (Denmark)
Jonathan Bellis (Great Britain)
Matteo Tosatto (Italy)
Manuele Boaro (Italy)
Laurent Didier (Luxembourg)
Marycz Jaroslaw (Poland)

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Most Americans Know Better Than to Ask Someone Out by Text Message

?Americans between the ages of 18 and 27 are more traditional than we thought! According to a new State of the Mobile Web report that surveyed 300,000 people, only 44% of the U.S. residents queried had asked someone out on a date via text. That percentage jumps to 84% for the Chinese and Germans, and 83% for Vietnamese. The study does not report how many of these dates were actually successful. Also, rather insanely, users in the U.S. were the least likely to have ever heard a busy-signal on their phones. Such innocents! [via the Observer][JDoll]

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Korean Attack Firefight Madness: The Bullet Point Roundup of North and South Korea's Giant, Scary Game of Battleship

?If you have any siblings -- or know anyone with siblings -- you probably know that as children, fights can erupt between the two as tensions are basically lifelong. And you are probably aware of the cliche when a parent walks in a ravaged room with two bleeding, hair-pulled, bite-marked children, and each one points to the other: They started it!

Well, that's exactly what's going on right now in wargames between North and South Korea. It's somewhat terrifying.

Here's your geopolitical crisis of the week in a nutshell:

• Things Were Chill: North Korea and South Korea were in the middle of an armistice in an otherwise perpetual, ongoing war.
• In March, Some Ship Went Down: Eight months ago, a South Korean battleship near the maritime border of North Korean waters went down under attack. The ship fired a warning shot at a "flock of birds," supposedly, and something -- be it a North Korean missile, or some very Angry Birds -- struck back, killing some of the 104 sailors on board. South Koreans were at first reluctant to blame North Korea for this (?!?) but are now apparently putting it on them.
• Licensed to Il: Things started getting funky last month, when North Korean officials named Kim Jong Il's son, Kim Jong Un, as the next leader of North Korea. Like everything else anyone in either Korea does, it was ostensibly seen by many as a sign of aggression.
• Nuke Kid On The Block: Then, on Tuesday, American scientists were given a tour of North Korean facilities and happened upon some weapons-grade plutonium. You know, the kind nuclear weapons are constructed with! And then, today?
• SHOTS (LITERALLY) FIRED: Yesterday, South Korea is performing a military drill when they say they fired shots into the south, away from the North Korean border.
• Shell Games: The North Koreans -- basically looking for any reason to start some shit -- responded by firing 200 artillery shells at the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. Two South Korean marines were killed; seventeen South Korean servicemen and three South Korean civillians were injured.
• Retaliation Nation: South Korea strikes back! They then fire 80 rounds of artillery and scramble Top Gun-esque fighter jets in response.

?The sum total?

South Korea: "Homie Don't Play That." Broadcasting live from a bunker at the presidential stronghold, the President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, calls the attacks "inhumane." He also told his military to "sternly respond" and also make sure that the "situation would not escalate." Which is kinda conflicting! That said, if North Korea messes with South Korea again, President Myung-bak promised "enormous retaliation" which it would appear is a step below "epic retaliation."

North Korea: "Say 'What' Again Motherfucker." North Korea actually, seriously told South Korea that if they move "even 0.001 millimeter" they're basically going to "murk" South Korea. They didn't actually say "murk" but you get the idea.

Meanwhile, Americans are purely concerned with strangers giving them handjobs as they go to stuff themselves with a marginally exotic bird that makes comical noises.

"To Be Continued," I guess.

[fkamer@villagevoice.com]

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What We Fight About, When We Fight at Thanksgiving

?It's pretty much guaranteed that if you're going to spend a prolonged or shorter amount of time with any immediate or distant family members over the upcoming holiday, you're going to have to channel all that togetherness and enforced thankfulness into something a little more dysfunctional at some point. But instead of feeling bad about yourself for ruining the dinner when you announce...

a) You're never getting married because why would you ever want to continue the loveless and hypocrisy-filled cycle that is your parents' existence?

b) You're pregnant...and, no, there is no "boyfriend"

c) That vegan turkey is, just, fetid

d) Thanks...for all the BULLSHIT!

e) Grampa/the baby/that weird neighbor who keeps touching you really smells

...you should feel no small sense of honor to be carrying on a tradition that's been handed down by as many generations as will have controlled their gag reflexes by sheer force of will when vegan turkey has its 100th birthday sometime down the pike of the future. Even the New York Post says it's true: According to lady-site iVillage.com, 68 percent of women predict fights for Thanksgiving.

iVillage's readers say the fights will likely be about "money; not liking the food; the hostess complaining she's doing all the work; people who drink too much; and being bored." (Other reasons might include any of the above, plus running out of booze, and your relatives asking if you've put on a few.)

Instead of the namby-pamby advice to "not let things bother you" and "prepare yourself mentally" generally suggested, however, we'd suggest a full-out Thanksgiving rage fest, complete with plate-throwing and bottle-breaking, and then a hasty exit with screeching tires. Just don't cut yourself or any immediate family members. Seriously, you'll feel so much better, and the rest of those assholes will be thankful you left. Also: Punches mean love.

P.S.: Don't drink and drive. Nothing takes the fun out of a nice, healthy, insult-filled Thanksgiving more than someone dying.

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Cathie Black's Appointment Generating More Pushback

?Over the weekend, Mayor Bloomberg experienced more pushback against Cathie Black, his choice for Chancellor of Schools. The only real variable in whether or not Bloomberg will get his choice is if State Education Commissioner David Steiner will grant Black a waiver or not, as she lacks the necessary credentials.

Steiner has convened a panel to give him advice on the waiver issue. Many members have some connection to the Mayor, but the panel seems designed to give Steiner some cover, if not an overwhelming appearance of impartiality.

Also late last week, the Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council adopted a resolution to "respectfully request that the Mayor appoint a Chancellor who meets the requirements for New York City Schools Chancellor without having to have a waiver from the New York State Education Commissioner," i.e. a professional educator. The CPAC is comprised of parents from all the districts in the city, and their resolution is the largest sign of organized opposition yet. The United Federation of Teachers also adopted a resolution against the process of the Mayor's selection.

For now, the Mayor's biggest allies in getting Black's waiver are business colleagues, several of those members of Steiner's advisory committee, and, as Tom Robbins pointed out, a cadre of powerful feminists.

Black will be interviewed by Steiner's panel tomorrow.

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