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Peter Gabel. Biography[edit] Early life and education[edit] Gabel is the only son of Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel. He graduated from Deerfield Academy, received his B.A. (1968) and J.D. (1972) from Harvard University, where he served as editor for the Harvard Lampoon, and received his Ph.D. from the Wright Institute in 1981. As a teenager he worked as a guide for the 1964 New York World's Fair, a fact he revealed on the game show What's My Line?

, where he appeared as a guest and stumped the panel, including his mother, Arlene Francis.[2][3] Career[edit] Gabel taught law at Boalt Hall (the law school of the University of California, Berkeley) and at the University of Minnesota before becoming a law professor for 30 years at the community driven New College of California School of Law.[4] He also served as New College's president for 20 years. Gabel is the bassist in Central Park Zoo, a dance band.[8] In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. On Monday night, Donald Trump’s wife Melania touched hearts as she addressed the Republican National Convention, sharing the lessons she learned growing up as a black girl on the South Side of Chicago. As first spotted by journalist Jarrett Hill, Melania’s speech bore more than a passing resemblance to another speech at another convention about eight years ago — Michelle Obama’s 2008 address to the Democratic National Convention.

The cribbed portion discussed the values that Michelle and Melania apparently share, including working hard for what you want in life and keeping your word. Read more → I apologize for Feministe’s long, long radio silence, and I hate that this is the occasion to break it. Read more → [Content note: mentions of transphobia and child sexual abuse] While Feministe has been down, an issue erupted in North Carolina about where trans people are allowed to pee. Here are some highlights, if somehow you missed it while you were missing us. Read more → Calm down. Read more → Mozilla Firefox (Private Browsing)

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