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...Remember Friday nights, when everyone came to town and leaned on their cars talking?" asks Mary Jane Fox, an octogenarian with a lively, youthful mind. "You saw your friends, got your groceries, heard the latest news. That was great fun. But that was some time...
...inventory is sort of like that. It is a record of haphazard events, the serendipity that Jane Jacobs used to say made for a pleasant city. So I jot down the stuff I bump into, or that bumps into me--nature's bewildering accidents, good and bad, ridiculous, astonishing. The task is overwhelming...
...Harvard students come. I discussed the inclusion of gender identity in the University-wide non-discrimination clause and tabled for National Coming Out Day, even making it onto The Peninsula's Enemies List for my activism. My academic ally, my coursework has involved queer themes from Jane Eyre to the Bible, and my thesis is openly lesbian. In my personal life, I no longer use ambiguous pronouns nor do I lower my voice to say words like gay in the dining hall. I am unwilling to sacrifice my identity for much of anything right...
...wrote about the turnaround at Sony, is accustomed to looking at the big picture. He learned young: his father, Frank Gibney Sr., ran the Tokyo bureau from 1949 to '51. This week Gibney--Junior, that is--draws on dispatches from Rahul Jacob in Seoul, Adam Zagorin in Washington and Jane Van Tassel in New York City to put into perspective the problems in Tokyo and Seoul. "You can't turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper in Japan without being hit by a flood of bad news," says Gibney. "The only statistics that are up are suicides...
...hards, the choice is no choice. Get it now. For the rest, if you've always wondered what Jane's Addiction was about, look no further. One more note about "Mountain Song"--the version included on the album is the first demo that the group ever recorded, and which they sent to Triple X Records, in hopes of landing a record contract (which they promptly did). There is a breathtaking distance between that early, embryonic indicator of Jane's future brilliance, and the new songs recorded for this album 10 years later. It'll be interesting to see where they...