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...China, 60 years is traditionally one of the most important birthday celebrations. Beijing's top cadres are evidently determined to make the parade spectacular. The number of participants - ranging from legions of helmeted jet pilots to policewomen in white go-go boots to students waving colored placards - will be the largest ever. Military experts say that the amount of new hardware on display, including fighter jets and new models of ballistic and cruise missiles, promises to be unusual...
Unpacking my boxes from summer storage, I began to suspect that I was suffering from a severe case of mauvaise foi. Perhaps it was a symptom of the anxiety surrounding my recent 20th birthday or my more deep-seated tendency toward hypochondria, brought on by watching too many episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Yet, as I unearthed heart-shaped perfume bottles, caked tubes of mascara, and back issues of Vogue, I felt as though I had violated some ill-defined feminist responsibility. A twinge of guilt, beyond the purely financial, accompanied...
...Twitter, his writing career consisted of spelling his name with a Sharpie. He's crushing my Dorothy Parker-level quips, like "Beer summit koan: If you dispel low-income racial tension by removing alcohol, you dispel upper-income racial tension by adding alcohol," with Shaqisms like "Happy birthday, harry potter main charachter dude." I am being beaten by a man whose giant fingers cannot even hit the correct keys. (See excerpts from the world's most popular Twitterers...
...nearly time to sing Happy Birthday to the Troubled Asset Relief Program. But few seem ready to don their party hats to cheer the plan that Congress approved nearly a year ago, giving the Treasury authority to spend up to $700 billion to rescue the nation's ailing banks...
...know we facing a recession / but the music y’all making gonna make it the Great Depression.”It’s been over a decade since Jay-Z could truly lay claim to the hard-knock life, and with a fortieth birthday approaching this year, it’s easy to assume that perhaps “The Blueprint 3” only amounts to the crotchety grumbling of a disconcerted old-timer, unsettled and upset with the ungodly direction in which youth culture is headed. Yet Jay-Z does more than simply advocate...