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...million Estimated mass in suns of a black hole that tore apart a star. U.S. and European scientists deduced the event by analyzing X rays from a distant galaxy...
...understand that the Social Planner must impose regulation when everyone has every incentive to storm Adams for lunch, Dartboard also knows that rules (just like clichés) are made to be manipulated. So when, just as Dartboard and Friend prepared to abandon their quest and retreat to the distant Quincy House, two of Dartboard and Friend’s friends—real live Adams residents—came to the rescue, Dartboard thought he had the answer. “We’re their guests!” Dartboard exclaimed...
After the Hawaii ruling, Lambda reversed course. One of its top attorneys, Evan Wolfson, began traveling the country to speak on gay marriage. Both gay and straight audiences needed convincing that it wasn't a distant fantasy. "I spoke in churches, gay organizations, the Federalist Society. I spoke in almost every state in the country. This went on for years. And the real thing that started to make the big difference is when we started to believe it could happen," says Wolfson, 47, who now runs his own project called Freedom to Marry. "And once that happened--after Hawaii, after...
...interest in this aspect of the performance. Viewers and TV executives were offended by the flashing, but their obsessive focus on Jackson’s sun-shaped “nipple shield” completely missed—forgive me, please—the point. More problematic than the distant, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it exposure was the action which caused it: Timberlake’s violent ripping-away of Jackson’s clothing. Whether or not he meant to leave behind Jackson’s bright red bustier, as he later claimed, is not important...
...makes every mopey English concentrator’s day by adapting Shelley for his lyrics, rediscovering British Romantics as proto-Obersts. But as perfectly-crafted as each individual song is, listening to the full album makes you want to remind Vanderslice not to forget to be cool, in that distant, disaffected sense of the word. Sometimes caring too much is a bad thing...