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...founded a half-assed arts collective in our common room? Didn’t we know kind of a lot of punk songs? Couldn’t we quote Sylvia Plath to each other in flat voices—“Every woman adores a Fascist/ The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like you”? Didn’t we construe practically everything ironically? Weren’t we post-angst, post-emotion...
...them." He trekked from Stanford to Ann Arbor, from Chapel Hill to the University of Florida in Gainesville. "The most valuable things were having people tell you about things like sex. I didn't see any," he adds hastily. What he did see was a kind of boot camp where teenagers are initiated into the social matrices of sex and power against the autumnal backdrop of what Wolfe describes as "the gradual--maybe not so gradual--disappearance of conventional morality...
...change things up? With a new coach, nine freshmen and a transfer sophomore to boot, there’s no sense in denying the obvious—this team has changed...
Even these performances couldn’t match the play of Curt Schilling. While a specially-made ankle boot was expected to aid the ailing Schilling in Game 6 of the ALCS, the blood soaking through Schilling’s sock as he threw told a different story. In an unprecedented procedure, his doctors stitched his skin to his bone—keeping the tendon in his ankle in place. Amazingly, Schilling performed his usual magic in pain, and he remarkably repeated this feat during Game 2 against St. Louis...
...buzzing burb it used to be. Blame that on two upstart areas-Changkat Bukit Bintang and Jalan Doraisamy (a.k.a. Asian Heritage Row)-that have taken the Malaysian capital by storm with a combination of restored colonial architecture and hip nightlife. There's plenty of decadent local color to boot-Changkat Bukit Bintang doubles up as love-hotel central...