WEEKS OF BOTCHED CALLS,  FAN DISSENT AND FIGHTING-MAD PLAYERS & COACHES ENDS  WITH  EIGHT-YEAR  LABOR  PACT   Following weeks of botched calls, severe criticism, fan dissent and fighting-mad players and coaches — culminating in the Green Bay Packers’ being robbed of victory over the Seattle Seahawks on the final play of their Monday night […]

  PROFESSOR’S  UNORTHODOX  ‘BABYSITTING’ SPARKS CAMPUS CRITICISM, SOME SUPPORT 77 PERCENT OF POLL RESPONDERS SAY ‘INAPPROPRIATE’   An unofficial poll taken by ABC Television Network’s Good Morning America in conjunction with the website Yahoo! that asked if readers and TV viewers thought American University Prof. Adrienne Pine acted inappropriately by breastfeeding her infant daughter while […]

  AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ANTHROPOLOGIST PAUSES TWICE, ONCE TO EXTRACT A PAPER CLIP  FROM CHILD’S MOUTH, A 2nd TIME TO SHOO BABY FROM ELECTRICAL OUTLET Accuses student newspaper of causing ‘hostile work environment’ BERATES REPORTER  FOR ‘MANUFACTURED CONTROVERSY’ AND FOR ASKING ‘BIASED AND SOPHOMORIC’ QUESTIONS   By Alan Z. Forman   In the name of academic […]

  WEEKEND WRAP A VOICE of BALTIMORE OCCASIONAL SERIES Op-Ed Musings on the Week’s Events   A PRECURSOR TO FOUR YEARS DOWN THE LINE? WILL IT BE MD.’S GOV’NOR VS. THE FIRST LADY Grinning like a Cheshire Cat, O’Malley leads delegates in repetitious cheers; plays to convention audience, seeming to ignore folks at home watching […]

  WEEKEND WRAP A VOICE of BALTIMORE OCCASIONAL SERIES Op-Ed Musings on the Week’s Events   It was the GOP Convention to nominate Mitt Romney for President, and Dirty Harry did it — his way:  Energizing the delegates, pulverizing the pundits, electrifying the country and confounding the media talking heads. For a different perspective on […]