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Eavesdropping Overheard in New York www.overheardinnewyork.com Amusing verbatim accounts of stuff people say to each other in public. Anybody can submit; just email your (brief) transcript to the editors for consideration. Overheardintheoffice.com is equally hilarious. Warning: on both sites, some material is not suitable for children, and profanity, stupidity or bigotry is generally kept intact...
...PostSecret postsecret.blogspot.com A fascinating public airing of private thoughts-some dark, others funny, endearing or disturbing-written on homemade postcards and collected by blogger Frank Warren of Germantown, Maryland. Anyone can contribute, and thousands have. Just make a card and mail it to Warren-he suggests that you be brief, legible and creative-and, if he likes it, he'll scan it and post it on his site. The range of efforts (meticulous, sloppy, artful, ponderous) will astound...
...DIED. RUI XINGWEN, 78, former aide to ousted Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, who died under house arrest earlier this year; in Beijing. As a senior propaganda official under Zhao in the late 1980s, Rui helped usher in a brief period of loosened media controls and a freer environment for ideas that gave rise to 1989's democracy demonstrations. When Zhao was purged in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Rui was demoted and never regained his earlier stature. His death has not been reported by mainland Chinese media...
...would walk through the streets and people would throw themselves at him," says his son, Juan Carlos Botero Zea, 44, a novelist who moved to Miami five years ago. But the artist's fame also makes him and his family prime targets for kidnapping. Botero slips into Colombia for brief visits about three times a year, traveling in an armored car with bodyguards provided by the government. In 1993, gangsters came to Botero's house in Colombia looking for him; he was not at home at the time. "When you come from a family with a prominent man like...
...University president’s brief stint as an improbable conservative icon may be coming to a close...