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...both dogs and dog movies afford us a chance to be incredibly sappy without feeling like a sucker. As the bajillion hits on Puppy Cam and the speculation over the particulars of the Obamas' hound of choice attest, dogs are the closest thing we have to a de-ironization device...
...couldn’t very well teleport myself or something when everyone else seemed to arrive dressed to be sportif.When the weather turned too gray and rainy to rationalize running outside, I joined a gym. It was inconspicuously nestled at the back of a Hausmannian building on the rue de Rennes. This ex-pat in search of a good ol’ American gym complete with sweat and bad pop music found herself in a bastion of French regimentation reminiscent of both the public university system and local fromagerie. It was monitored by conseillers du sport—workout counselors?...
...election eagerly, like so many around the world. But for the time being, it’s just far-off news. What’s been put in front of my face steals my attention: the graffiti on the walls of the Political Science Facultad at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It is mostly ugly, and come to think of it, the walls themselves, in addition to most structural features located therein, are pretty ugly.My classes began at 6:30 p.m., so I would typically approach its hulking, rectangular silhouette in the nighttime. Perhaps I’d slip into...
...This, my friends, is our tour de force. Our magnum opus. Our eggs benedict, if you will...
...accident appears to have had a much better outcome than many similar incidents in U.S. aviation history. In January 1982, an Air Florida flight crashed into the Potomac in Washington. That plane was not fully de-iced on a 24°F day; only five people survived the accident, in part because it took a while for rescue vehicles to get to the plane in the cold water...