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...three children - Ballard immersed himself in the hands-on family life he craved. After the publication of The Drowned World in 1962, he could afford to stay home, writing more postapocalyptic tales. Then, the following year, Mary died of pneumonia. This loss struck Ballard as a bitter and unexplained crime of nature, and it would obsess him for decades. But it didn't damage his appetite either for fatherhood or the typewriter. In fact, he writes, "My greatest ally was the pram in the hall...
...Monday, police in the small, liberal town of Oxnard, CA, declared last week’s school shooting of a 15-year-old boy to be a hate-crime, motivated by the victim’s sexuality. The boy, Lawrence King, recently came out as gay to his peers at his junior high school. A few weeks later, a classmate shot him dead...
...Residents expressed shock and horror, both at the sudden presence of such a gruesome hate crime in their midst and, most of all (and understandably), at the age of those involved...
...power issues. And that's reflected in the issues that draw a bright line between my candidacy and that of McCain, [Illinois Senator Barack] Obama, [and New York Senator Hillary] Clinton. They're all against single payer [government health insurance]. They're all against a media crackdown of corporate crime, power and abuse. They're all against cutting the bloated wasteful military budget that your magazine has disclosed again and again. They're all against changing the course in the Middle East. They're all against open debates and new debate formats. They're all against impeaching [President George...
...Harlem’s American Gangster” was not compiled as a bona fide album but as a mixtape in response to Brooklyn-born Jay-Z and his 2007 album “American Gangster.” Hosted by Hova’s ex-partner in crime, Damon Dash, the mixtape represents a continuation of the beef between the two hip-hop moguls with Jim Jones serving as Dame’s proxy. Ironically enough, in the realm of rap, where Jay-Z is generally considered the king (his kingdom having—ahem?...