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...Summer break begins now for Gossip Guy. Still, he’s struggling to find employment: He may work on the assembly line in a lies factory, make copies in a rumor emporium or answer the phones at an innuendo mill...
...weathered biking gloves, lower the tinted visor of her helmet into place and then close the heavy zipper of her black leather jacket, its metal studs gleaming in the sunlight, my highly developed journalist’s eye told me that this was no run-of-the-mill Harvard woman...
Here's how democracy works in the digital age. Just before Apple unveiled the iPod last October, the Internet rumor mill was rife with speculation that the device would be some kind of personal organizer--Steve Jobs' answer to the Palm Pilot. The iPod turned out to be a palm-size music player with a five-gigabyte hard drive (a 10-GB version was released two weeks ago). But now, six months later, that original speculation doesn't seem too wrong. That's because Apple's hard-core users quickly figured out how to hack the device and write...
...roust some "illegal settlers." On March 27 Tsadiqui Hussain, the lean and weary police chief of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was told by superiors that his officers were needed for some routine arrests. Hussain didn't think much of it. Faisalabad, in the center of Punjab province, is a humming mill town, and illegal immigrants are always turning up there in search of work. But shortly after midnight, some unexpected visitors came striding into Hussain's colonial-era office. They were members of Pakistani military intelligence, accompanied by American CIA and FBI personnel wearing bulletproof vests. This was hardly routine...
...Both “A la Bastille” (1888) and “Portrait of Jeanne Wenz (La Femme au Noed Rose)” (1886) feature a self-assured, dignified subject. Whether momentarily seated at a table—ready to spring up and mill about—or formally seated for a traditional profile painting, Toulouse Lautrec’s barmaid subject sports a capricious smirk. Again, the artist transcends different settings and poses to humanize and endear to us a confident and dynamic subject...