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...cover of Christopher Hitchens’s latest book finds the author pictured, dapper in a rumpled olive trench coat and five o’clock shadow, brandishing a cigarette and gazing at us with obstinate skepticism. By posing as the craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary...
...Pakistani," he shouted in Pashto. "What are you doing here? You a Pakistani officer." I kept replying in Urdu. They forced me to sit on a wheel barrow. I was terrified. My camera was in the pocket of my waist coat. I shuddered at what would happen if they search me and find the camera...
Last Sunday night as I sat in my room typing the next installment of my column, thinking of how dull the Harvard campus has been recently, I was interrupted by the piercing sound of my fire alarm. Cursing the now-routine recent barrage of fire drills, I grabbed my coat and rushed downstairs into the courtyard. Only this time, to my delight, the distinct smell of acrid smoke greeted my nostrils upon exiting the building...
...medium when the met and began to collaborate over 10 years ago. Some of Ackroyd and Harvey’s other work have included grass-covered buildings and clothing made of grass. As part of a campaign against the use of fur, they created a grass-fur coat grown on burlap that was then stitched together...
...many images race through my mind as I recall the New York City Marathon. Crossing the bridge into Brooklyn, a firefighter ran with us, dressed in his heavy boots, flame-retardant coat and pants and signature black helmet. One runner beside me wore a singlet with “For My Buddies” written across the shoulders, and seven names listed down the back. Another woman I passed had pinned a picture of her late brother to the back of her T-shirt. Some ran with American flag capes fluttering behind them, and scores of others had adorned their...