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Last September 7313 packages arrived in the mailroom, 85 percent of which came during move-in week, according to the records from McClary’s makeshift file cabinet, a U.S. Postal Service plastic...
...comfort food. On a recent Sunday afternoon, three employees bustle about behind the counter and below a menu of pizzas, hot and cold subs, salads, spaghetti and simple red and yellow paintings thereof. Pictures of chefs, family and the Virgin Mary adorn the back wall of the kitchen. Red plastic booths overflow with pleased patrons and Impressionist prints in gilded frames crowd the wall. A large cardboard box of cans and bottles demonstrates the establishment’s environmental friendliness. The cashier rings up a meal totaling $6.04 but requests only an even $6 from the customer. A couple...
...Hamdullah was the only survivor left behind in the school grounds that night. Villagers say two wounded were taken to hospital in distant Tarin Kowt. Among the dead were two men with their hands tied behind their backs. The narrow plastic zip ties bore the markings: "US Pat. No. 5651376. Other Pat. Pending...
...Fifteen minutes later, facing an unknown future with just a pink plastic basket holding a few clothes and a bottle of shampoo, Lek starts to cry. Suddenly sensing a need to do everything properly, she runs into the bar, kneels in front of Mama San and begins to bow and chant, a good Buddhist girl in smudged makeup giving thanks for her freedom. Mama San laughs, flattered by the display of supplication. She isn't worried about finding replacements. "Their mothers or the middlemen bring them to me," she says. "There are always fresh ones...
...times have since changed: The art of mic-slaying has been driven underground by plastic gun-toting, golden-toothed infidels draped in gloss and glitter. The horrorcore style has become as clichéd as the old kung fu movies from which it was spawned. Gone is the grimy street noir of Wu-Tang Forever; on Iron Flag, we instead have more party jams (“Soul Power”), gangsta crooning (“Back in the Game”) and traditional boom-bap (the DJ Premier-esque “Rules”). It?...