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...journal n+1 is perhaps not very different from many other rented Manhattan offices. It’s small and slightly unkempt. Rows of books and past issues of the magazine line the walls ,along with other oddities like readers’ letters, notes and lists pinned to a dartboard. A letter of praise for the magazine by novelist Don DeLillo is proudly tacked on to the wall. If the messiness represents the stereotypical traits of a modern bohemian intellectual, then the DeLillo letter is undoubtedly symbolic of the meteoric success of the journal since its initial publication in 2004.On...
...manager, BRUCE WILLIS hired a childhood friend to be his personal scrapbooker, organizing treasured photos, videos and memorabilia in exchange for free room and board on the Die Hard star's Los Angeles property. That sounds like a nifty idea--who wants to misplace that vintage Cybill Shepherd dartboard?--unless the friendship takes a turn. Willis is now suing Bruce DiMattia for more than $1 million, claiming his ex-archivist threatened to sell Willis' personal effects and write a tell-all book containing "highly personal, private and confidential information" unless Willis paid him $100,000 and bought...
...team considered other models--a dartboard with a perfect outcome as the bull's-eye, or a minefield, in which a mine represents death and a rock might be, say, nausea. That analogy failed. ("People thought they could step over the side effects," he says.) The roulette wheel best illustrated the range of outcomes. With medical care, as with that little white ball, says Hoffman, "you know that it could land anywhere...
Episode V: Dartboard Strikes Back When Dartboard awoke after sleeping a deep slumber, Dartboard opened her eyes to a new world—a whole year had passed by. “What happened?” Dartboard thought. Without Dartboard, who had commented on sexual shower escapades, the loss of “Super-Size,” a party shuttle to the Quad, or, most importantly, Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 stealing Dartboard’s pizza? No one, Dartboard thought, through an all-encompassing depression. Dartboard had failed—failed so completely that many...
...help is going. RISE-PAK addresses that by aiming to keep track of where help has been sent and where it is still needed, Khwaja said. Khwaja added that in the wake of a disaster, relief efforts tend to be somewhat disorganized. “It is like a dartboard. If you blindly throw all the darts at once, you might miss something,” he said. “It doesn’t work.” “You might get 10 to 20 percent of an area, but who is doing the rest...