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...things in this life are more awkward than the first relationship or sexual encounter. The first experience of love is a minefield scattered with mistakes and regrets. But while no one wants to experience heartbreak firsthand, reading about others’ experiences delivers a dose of schadenfreude—as is the case with “Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me.” “Things I’ve Learned,” a collection of short works by 30 male comedy writers, including Stephen Colbert, Will...
...mood is very different in places like Mosul, where things have gotten worse in the past year. Norris, the son of an Army chaplain, spent his previous tour in Diyala, but some of his men have had firsthand experience of Mosul. Fleenor earned a Purple Heart for the injuries he sustained here in 2004, and he lost his best friend, Sergeant Frank Hernandez, to a roadside bomb during the same deployment. As he walks the confines of Rabiya, Fleenor still wears a black metal band on his wrist etched with Hernandez's name. Sergeant Tony Carter, 33, who also served...
...because there is something intrinsically and objectively important in experiencing something in its original form. Actually playing the guitar involves much more practice and skill than “Guitar Hero,” and it allows for artistic imagination and creativity. Any art made by hand and seen firsthand requires effort on the part of both the artist and the observer. Often, it’s only without manipulation by technology that some real meaning can emerge.The real thing feels better. It might require more work, but there’s always more reward. I’m just...
...initiative. She managed to get 60 sewing machines through donations and set up a small workshop, which employs 100 women from displaced families. Odhaib sees the program as a way to help the families earn a lilttle income and find some dignity until a better solution emerges. She knows firsthand it can work. When Odhaib's husband wound up jobless in the early 1990s, she supported the family by opening a small tailoring shop in Baghdad. At first she made clothes to order by herself using three machines she bought with savings. As the business grew she was able...
...surge in grassroots political activism. But as gratifying as it is to see otherwise apathetic voters—especially students—getting excited about politics, much of the Obama grassroots has focused not on substantive policy-based support, but on mindless hero-worship. To see this phenomenon firsthand, there’s no better place to turn that than that ubiquitous record of the modern zeitgeist: Youtube.com...