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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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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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Prostitution
The 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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Feelings about the deal in the adult entertainment industry were mixed. Many were optimistic, hoping that the acquisition would signal an opportunity for the industry to break into mainstream finance, showing a maturity that long eluded the skin business. But the zeal was tempered with concern: Nobody could figure out the transaction. Penthouse was universally judged to have overpaid for Various, and the dollars involved left people perplexed. It was clear that outside capital had been pumped into Penthouse to make the acquisition possible, but there didn’t seem to be much value to the approach beyond the opacity afforded by the ailing adult media company.
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By the end of 2008, there was no hope for Penthouse. It had blown through its loan covenants and needed to come up with more than $400 million on short notice. Credit markets were no longer an option, and FFN’s existing investors were ostensibly unwilling to double down on the company. The only choice it had was to go public. So Penthous …

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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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