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...luckily, the inverse of this purported drawback is also true. Girl Talk’s “studio” albums (though the term “studio” implies the presence of session musicians, which play no part in auteur Gregg Gillis’s process) pack the same infectiously danceable punch that his performances do. His online-distributed June album, “Feed the Animals,” is no exception. Within the context of Girl Talk’s mashups, no songs or artists are out of bounds. On “In Step...
...there are portions of this piece, culled from Wallace's week with John McCain during the fractious 2000 GOP primary race, that read like lots of other stories by lesser writers. But while he got caught up in the misery of travel and the griping of the press pack, Wallace also noticed that it was the television camera men who were the most trustworthy witnesses and analysts of the candidates' chances, and developed a deep appreciation for the sacrifices John McCain made, and the indignities he faced, as he tried to become President. The story was later expanded and turned...
Which brings us to the second, more unusual aspect of The 39 Clues: those "multiple stages of discovery and imagination" Spielberg mentioned. When you buy a copy of The Maze of Bones, you'll find a pocket in the inside front cover that contains a pack of six trading cards. If you like them, you can buy more - there are 355 cards in all - and trade them with your friends. The cards come with various points and clues and puzzles on them, in a system so complicated you would have to be 13 years old or younger to understand...
...Although McCain was one of the last holdouts in his campaign for continuing the signature "Straight Talk" sessions, he now embraces a tightly supervised separation from the media pack. He has not held a press conference since early August, and reporters traveling with him can go days without seeing the candidate up close, and weeks without an opportunity to exchange a word with him. In a recent pre-convention interview with TIME, McCain dismissed many of the questions - including ones that seemed benign to the reporters posing them - as gotcha attacks, and refused to answer others. He was similarly brusque...
...Hirst was the de facto leader of the pack and a bad boy at the center of every party. He drank heavily and knew all about the business end of a cocaine straw. A turning point came when he met Frank Dunphy, his genial but very shrewd business manager and empire builder. Dunphy is a 70-year-old Irishman who once handled the books for acrobats, jugglers and "exotic" dancers. In the mid-'90s he agreed to help Hirst straighten out a tax problem. Hirst says Dunphy promised to make him money. "I said, 'You're an accountant - you mean...