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Don Imus Trouble Again

Rutgers women target of shock jock’s words

Radio host Don Imus apologized Friday for calling the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on his nationally syndicated program.

The National Association of Black Journalists demanded his immediate firing after the man known as “Imus in the Morning” put his foot deep in his mouth Wednesday. Imus questioned the players’ looks, describing them as tattooed “rough girls.” His producer compared the team — which has eight black members — to the NBA’s Toronto Raptors.

Near the start of Friday’s show, Imus said he wanted to “apologize for an insensitive and ill-conceived remark we made the other morning referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team. It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended.

“Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry.”

Gregory Lee, an NABJ officer and senior assistant sports editor at The Boston Globe, said the mea culpa did little to atone for the comments.

“You can apologize, but what does that mean when you have a history of making disparaging remarks about people?” Lee asked about the acid-tongued Imus. “This kind of behavior must be punished. I hope the company and sponsors he has take some sort of action … to educate him.”

NABJ president Bryan Monroe asked Thursday if Imus had “lost his mind” and called for the veteran radio host’s dismissal.

Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGurk when the NCAA title game between Rutgers and Tennessee came up.

“That’s some rough girls from Rutgers,” Imus said. “Man, they got tattoos … “

“Some hardcore hos,” McGurk said.

“That’s some nappy-headed hos there, I’m going to tell you that,” Imus said.

Imus, a member of the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame and one of the nation’s best-known radio voices, is renowned for his caustic style and politically incorrect verbal broadsides. His show is syndicated to millions of listeners.

WFAN-AM, the home of Imus’ show, declined comment. At MSNBC, where the radio program is simulcast on television, officials offered Imus no support.

” ‘Imus in the Morning’ is not a production of the cable network and is produced by WFAN Radio,” said a statement from the network. “As Imus makes clear every day, his views are not those of MSNBC. We regret that his remarks were aired on MSNBC and apologize for these offensive comments.”

In a joint statement, NCAA president Myles Brand and Rutgers president Richard McCormick condemned Imus’ slur.

“The NCAA and Rutgers University are offended by the insults on MSNBC’s Don Imus program toward the 10 young women on the Rutgers basketball team,” their statement read. “It is unconscionable that anyone would use the airways to utter such disregard for the dignity of human beings who have accomplished much and deserve great credit.”

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VIEWERS were stunned when their tellies suddenly began to show explicit porn.

Instead of the cricket and documentary on BBC1 and BBC2, they were confronted with sex scene – including some involving naked lesbians and a five-way orgy.

It happened as technicians at Smallworld Cable carried out maintenance, sparking 20 complaints.

Viewer Gary Brown, 26, said: “I had switched over to BBC 1 to watch the cricket and couldn’t believe my eyes.

“There were naked bodies all over the place, including two men and three women taking part in an orgy.

“It’s just as well it was a school night and the kids were in bed – I wouldn’t have wanted them seeing what appeared.”

Another viewer added: “Some of the stuff broadcast by accident was really near the knuckle.

“I had a bit of a laugh about it, but I can see how some people could be offended by what was shown. It’s just as well it was late at night.”

Small world viewers tuning in on Tuesday night were also treated to a woman doing a lengthy striptease before dancing naked through a wood.

Other clips on the subscription channel included sex acts which can’t be described in a family newspaper.

Last night, Keith Arnold, a spokesman for the network, which covers Ayrshire, apologised for the peep-show.

He added: “We are in the process of upgrading our systems and have come up against several problems.

“But this should never have happened and we apologise to those people who were subjected to any offensive material.

“We didn’t foresee this problem and I can assure viewers that it will not happen again.

“If we can’t remedy the fault, we will take these channels off air until work is complete.”

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City where the kissing has to stop

The couples who gather each evening on the stretch of reclaimed land jutting into the sea around Bombay do not come for the view.

In one of the most densely populated cities in the world, few places offer sanctuary for young lovers constrained by cultural conservatism and the constant glare of relatives. They steal kisses and exchange whispers in the most intimate setting available. But this tender act is enough to get them arrested.

More than 100 couples were rounded up by police this week for activities that in Western society would be regarded as innocent. In India, where kissing in public is technically illegal, they were deemed to be in “objectionable positions”. They were taken away in vans, fined up to 1,200 rupees for indulging in “obscene” behaviour and forced to endure the humiliation of calling their parents from behind bars.

Such a reaction by the authorities would not warrant comment in India’s less tolerant north but in the country’s most liberal city, the home of Bollywood and the commercial capital, it has left public opinion sharply divided.

The promenade is littered with couples. Most appear to be simply chatting. A few are kissing. Three retired government officers are also enjoying the evening breeze. They are among the local residents whose complaints prompted the police activity. They claim the couples are making families and joggers feel “awkward”.

Ramesh Dhatrak, 65, said: “We have no objection to them sitting and talking but kissing and other things, of which I cannot speak, are not. They can hire a room. This is India, not England.” The police say they are only combating gross indecency but many of those arrested claimed to be doing nothing more than holding hands.

Critics say the outburst of moral policing is evidence of an inherent insecurity among Hindu nationalists and the elder generation about the breakneck speed of social change.

“The fundamentalists are colliding with modern youth,” Dr Ranjana Kumari, director of the Centre for Social Research in Delhi, said. “India is modernising and we, as a society, are not coping with the new-found confidence of boys and girls to be together openly.”

The clampdown in Bombay comes less than two months after the Shiv Sena (Army of Shiva), a nationalist party accused of orchestrating violence against Muslims in the 1993 riots, swept to power in the municipal elections.

The party, whose supporters attack people celebrating Valentine’s Day, helped to force a ban this month on sex education books in state schools. “At a time when India wants to project itself as this modern, growing world power, decisions such as these remind us that the country continues to be governed by people who equate modernity with promiscuity,” an editorial in The Hindu lamented.

It is a confusing time for modern Indian youth, bombarded by the advertising industry with images of sexual freedom but compelled by social norms to reject them.

“Indians love brushing things under the carpet. Stop pretending that we don’t have sex. We do. Look at our population,” said Anup Kutty, editor of the the lads’ mag Maxim, whose cover this month has the cricket presenter Mandira Bedi posing in a bikini top.

But despite social progression, at least one 20-year-old agreed with the police action. Leaning on her boyfriend’s motorcycle, she said: “Hugging and kissing looks bad. I think you should wait for all physical things until after you are married.”

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