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MOBY, pioneering electronic musician: I have a friend whose Swedish mother--she's in her mid-60s--goes online to meet men. I was with my friend as he drove her to the Hilton to meet a Canadian doctor she'd encountered online, and I thought, How disconcerting. Because it was 10 at night and most likely she was going to meet this guy and stay in his hotel room. Go back 50 years, and she would have been in her Swedish village, depressed, a bit lonely and sad. Instead she's in midtown Manhattan, preparing to spend the night...
...subsequent games, shock turned to bemusement. This occasionally happened at the expense of the players—one time, as I was interviewing an outfielder, a teammate came up behind him and ripped off his towel mid-interview. It’s hard to say who was more embarrassed, me or the 6’4 nude 19-year...
...wave of “second midterms,” looming on the horizon like a storm cloud over an all-too-short sunny day. It would be disingenuous to act as though I’m at all surprised by this peculiar concept—“mid-terms” administered at points well beyond the halfway mark of the semester—since, after all, bizarre testing procedures are par for the course here at Harvard. But even alongside atypical practices such as holding finals after winter break, the “second midterm?...
...miles west to east, while units from the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines moved into the northern half. Embedded with Fox and Golf companies of the 2/1, This reporter saw little fighting in the first three days of the operation, but had advanced about halfway through the city by mid-day Monday. By then, one Marine from the 3/6 had been killed and several others from the 2/1 wounded. The number of insurgents killed was unknown, with estimates ranging from...
French jihad? Algeria's revenge? Intifada-sur-Seine? Forget all that. The riots currently rocking France have far more in common with the violence that shook Watts, Cleveland, and Harlem in the mid-1960s than they do with the Islamist extremism behind 9/11 or the attacks in Madrid and London. The driving forces are socio-economic injustice and racial segregation, not a thirst for infidel blood on the march to a global Caliphate. The infuriated youths burning cars and stoning police in the dismal suburbs of Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes and beyond are demanding a piece of France's modern...