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...Passaic, New Jersey! That crumbling, grumbling city across the Hudson from the gleaming skyline of New York, yet worlds removed from Manhattan magic. A place whose residents shiver in dour poverty, and whose most famous native sons and daughters had to leave town to make it big. The honor roll would include Joe Piscopo, Paul Rudd, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz, three-time Oscar-winning producer Saul Zaentz, sitcom regulars Loretta Swit and Larry Storch, sports hysteric Dick Vitale...and, Be Kind Rewind tells us, the legendary pianist and composer Fats Waller...
...swell to 36% by 2050. This trend is good news for retailers in Sugamo, where Jan. 24 is the equivalent of America's Friday after Thanksgiving. As many as 80,000 visitors flock to the area to pay their New Year's respects at Koganji Temple - home of a famous statue of the Buddhist demigod Togenuki Jizo, protector of the weak - and browse in some 200 stores overflowing with free food samples and women's wear...
There's a famous saying that everyone is better off not seeing how sausages and laws are made. The same applies to countries. In less than two decades, I've seen no less then six new nations born in my immediate neighborhood, the Balkans, and it was a messy process every time. So please forgive me if I'm not greeting the latest one - Kosovo, which declared independence on Sunday, Feb. 17 - with the respect and admiration it probably deserves...
...Lessig] has down the part that can be elusive to many candidates: a message,” Zittrain said. “His focus on what he calls corruption couldn’t be better timed, given public sentiment this election cycle.” Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright law, is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows copyright holders to provide some or all of the rights to their work online for free. Last summer, Lessig surprised many of his longtime admirers by announcing that...
...largest Serbian Orthodox church in the Balkans. There, high priests delivered "prayers for Kosovo." The former Russian dissident and Nobel Laureate Aleksander Solzhenitsyn sent greetings from his home in the U.S. state of Vermont, calling on Serbs to "stand by your graves." (Kosovo is the site of a famous defeat at the hands of the Ottomans that is deemed a cradle of Serbian identity...