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...York/Boston outlook amidst this strange breed known as Midwesterners: People who say pop instead of soda; melk instead of milk; and who still wonder why the hell those things that look so much like donuts taste so funny (and who persist in calling them bag-els instead of bay-gels...
...going to Monterey to ponder a big topic like the Future of Life, you can?t help but think of the marine biologist Ed Ricketts (1897-1948), a scientist who studied the myriad creatures of Monterey Bay and, more important, was a thinker far ahead of his time. Better known as the model for ?Doc?- the wise, philosophical scientist in John Steinbeck?s books Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday and The Sea of Cortez- Ricketts preached the idea that all life was related, from the sardines that once swarmed by the billions off the California coast to the people who depended...
...when asked whether or not she would visit Cuba, Jimenez, who said her father was tortured by the Castro regime following the Bay of Pigs in 1961, said she was uncertain...
...Joey, Johnny, Tommy and Dee Dee (who died of a drug overdose in June) dressed in black leather and scowled like Bowery thugs, but they actually played some of the loopiest pop music ever made. Blitzkrieg Bop's famous "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" was an homage to the Bay City Rollers, while Joey--singer of the immortal line "I'm a Nazi schatze"--was the deadpan alter ego of Jeffrey Hyman, a nice Jewish boy from Queens...
...international human rights lobby, which lodged a series of hysterical protests over the supposedly inhumane treatment of captured Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at Guantanamo Bay, has long been reluctant to condemn the denial of personal liberties in Castro’s prison-state. Many activists still cling to the myth of Cuba as a “workers’ paradise,” and thus cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the realities of state-sponsored murder, torture and persecution that have typified life for Cuban dissidents since the revolution in 1959. An unfortunately large group of Western liberals...