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Like so much of my life, it all happened in a very half-assed fashion. The A.V. Club didn't have a hip-hop reviewer, and I felt like I could do a passable job. When I started at the A.V. Club, I was not a good writer. I was a year and a half out of the group home. So I had to figure out ways to make myself indispensable. I would do things that were insane; I had a lot of chutzpah. I started a series called "Critical Beatdown," where I would ask people insulting questions. People really...
...Baron Cohen, whose first job after graduating from Cambridge University was as a fashion model, deserves credit for pushing further than he did in Borat. He's beyond brazen in his forced marriage of suicide raids on homophobes and the cartoon mockery of rural Southerners - sort of al-Qaeda and Al Capp. But he and Universal (which paid a hefty $42.5 million for rights to the movie and launched a worldwide marketing campaign that brought the pre-release tab to about $100 million) had two hints that things could go wrong. One was the death of Michael Jackson, which spurred...
...walked in without a cane, without a limp, got up from a chair faster than I can and showed me a healed surgical wound that looked a month old. The "stiffness" was gone; he now had normal range of motion. Jerry was quite pleased - happy with my job - but there was also an air of pride or confidence, perhaps victory, about him. He was just so convinced that he had been eased by and sped through the healing process thanks to turmeric...
...trees start producing latex. The rubber farmers have to do or pay nothing. BRE even trains and employs up to 1,000 people in the process. "They couldn't believe it," says Robert Baines, 32, manager of BRE's fuels division, which imported $50 million of equipment for the job...
...During his own presidential campaign, Obama had repeatedly evoked his ability to identify with and inspire African citizens as one of his qualifications for the job as President. On March 4, 2008, during a speech in Texas, Obama told a story an 81-year-old Ugandan who stayed up until 5 a.m. to watch the Iowa election results. "The world is watching what we do here," Obama declared then. "The world is paying attention to how we conduct ourselves...