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...newsroom at Moscow's Novaya Gazeta does not feel like a battleground. It's a series of cramped, fluorescent-lit offices, as quiet as a library in the hallways. But behind the closed doors, there's energy. Young journalists (average age: around 30) pore over the stories and photographs that will make the next day's issue of a newspaper in a very dangerous business--being the most strident voice of opposition in Vladimir Putin's Russia...
...prettier explosions in big-budgetaction movies, but it also gives us abetter view of the natural human deformitiesthat mar even the most beautifulspecimens. Paul Gauguin’s paintings ofTahitian women are seductive preciselybecause they leave details to the imagination.But will high defi nition really addanything to a poorly-lit money shot thatwas fi lmed using decrepit equipment?And what about highbrow cinema? Will“Casablanca”—a visually gorgeous moviethat was made without the benefi t ofmodern technology—be improved byBlu-ray technology?Michael Curtiz’s directing, IngridBergman?...
Just as Adam and Eve were unashamed of their nakedness before Eve went and ate that apple (heyyy, Lit C-70!), I was perfectly happy peddling around on my sweet, stable ride. Double the wheels, double the fun. Not to mention that I could ride around hands-free with a heck of a lot less effort...
...three minutes into overtime, the No. 1 Harvard women’s hockey team thought it had put the game away.Junior defenseman Kati Vaughn launched a slapshot from the blue line that soared through traffic and into the back of the net. The red lamp lit up and the Crimson spilled the ice to celebrate its championship victory.But the referees disagreed, pulling back the goal after ruling that it had been deflected in by a high stick in front of the net.“We don’t know what the tape will look like, but we felt...
...Clinton and her top staff already were aboard the campaign's jet when their Blackberry phones lit up. Fox News was calling Texas for Clinton. The aides cheered. Campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe poured cheap Yellow Tail wine into long-stemmed glasses, and they stood in a clump in the aisle and made a quick toast...