m.g. lord is a journalist, cultural critic and highly regarded teacher in this school's masters professional writing program. for many years she was a syndicated political cartoonist and columnists based at newsday and is a regula contributor to "the new york times" -- regular contributor to "the new york times" book review. she is the author of astroturf: the private life of rocket science, a family memoir about cold war aerospace culture. but she became a true literary celebtive after she wrote the unauthorized biography of a real doll. [laughter] which examines how a fantastically sexual doll that was inspired by a jokey, erotic knickknack held to hold a place of honor and meaning in the childhoods of so many american girls. she argues that barbie was invented by women to teach girls, for better or worse, what was expected of them. and now she has turned her critic's gaze to another curvy american icon in her new book, "the accidental feminist: how elizabeth taylor raised our consciousn

m.g. supposedly did an independent investigation into my allegations about h.boss and that was a cover up directly to the camera that was a cover up and if you want to sue me for it come and do so because i can prove it and it'll be in my book top to tail so you might as well fess up right now this is totally ghetto i mean i am going to charge this it's absolutely true and by the way for i feel need neil mitchell's case a guy no more oil bank of skyline no every in the real world restructuring group of the royal bank of scotland so that the same thing right roll back of scotland with the global restructuring group is not just a similar scam by another accounting firm in the same nonsense victimising is poor british very much stealing their assets yet on a. global restructuring group i have direct evidence. i know neil mitchell and. so sometimes it becomes a cross as a personal vendetta but it isn't and by the way i'm not on a personal vendetta rather i might sound like it i'm up for truth and justice and reform i have direct evidence of. what i would describe a