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I’m writing about my roommates for two reasons. First reason: I’ve got new ones this year. Because of my ’06-’07 status, I had previously lived with a group of ’06ers and now I?...
They carried crowns, sunglasses, and more viking helmets than a Norse longboat. Crowding outside Boston’s Newbury Comics last Wednesday, the fans waiting to meet Flavor Flav did more than embody dedication. Compulsively glancing at the clocks which dangled from so many of their necks, they comprised the...
This completely fictional figure is, of course, intended to symbolize all the freaks who preoccupied Arbus for the rest of her short life (she is one of those artists whose brief stay among us adds tragic resonance to a relatively modest body of work). Arbus herself is presented as a...
...President Bush created the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI), thereby putting the compassion into “compassionate conservatism.” The problem, at least according to the Office’s online brochure, is that religious charities are restricted by “complicated rules” that are “inherently unfair.” The solution is hundreds of millions of dollars taken out of existing foundations and sent to Christian, and almost exclusively Christian, charities...
These days, and increasingly so, the playwright is indignant. Unlike a youth's reckless rage or an old man's sour huff, Michael Gurr's fury radiates white heat. "I've never been angrier," he says. "Our current national government has presided over a time of almost unbelievable moral corruption...