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Dawn is breaking over a crowded neighborhood in Madras, and the murmur of early-morning prayers is dispersing the stillness of the night. A solitary light shines from the ground floor of a three-story house. Inside, a lone, curly-haired figure sits at a vast mixing desk, fingers skating across the controls. A.R. Rahman's work is almost finished. For as long as he can remember, Asia's most successful composer has slept through the noise of the day and composed in the silence of the night. And the past eight hours have been especially productive: Rahman has completed...
...English, an illustrious achievement that has earned him a job as an office temp at the General Services Division of the Texas Department of General Services. TxDoGS, as its denizens call it, is a dreary cubicle farm consecrated to obscure bureaucratic functions. When a co-worker dies at his desk while working overtime on a pointless assignment, Paul's low-level anomie turns to panic at the prospect of "an eternity of meaningless work in an empty office in an eternal twilight...
...future those who wonder at the wan faces which wander by them as they wait for books at the reading desk in Widener must remember that there is reason a plenty for the wan wanders' wanness. And thus they can see even here at Harvard another proof of the baneful effects of co-education...
...Bird behind his back. Big Bird used to be an electrician till he realized his true calling, namely, shooting smack. A few days ago, one of Big Bird's fellow junkies conked him on the head with a chunk of concrete--the chunk is in Conlon's desk, in fact, with blood and hair still on it--and it's Conlon's job to find...
Settle back into that comfy futon or bizarre Harvard-issue desk chair on any given night and you’ll be confronted with a disgraceful array of lame, chauvinist reality television. Most intelligent people maintain a love-hate relationship with this peculiar programming, not totally convinced but not daring to look away—who knows, another frightful confirmation of a gender stereotype might lie after the next advertisement. You sit glued...