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...Horne rallied his news team in Baton Rouge, where they started printing on borrowed printing presses since their own were trapped in floodwaters. Covering the hurricane, he says, was “fascinating, challenging, [and] sometimes horrifying.”Within a week of Hurricane Katrina, Random House contacted him about writing a book on what he calls “the non-military story of the postwar era.”His book, Horne says, describes how “the story [of Katrina] rivals the significance of the whole drama of civil rights,” though...
...elements of language, that depends on context. Calling the Big Dig a tar baby is a lot different than calling a person one. But sensitivity is not unwarranted. Among etymologists, a slur's validity hangs heavily on history. The concept of tar baby goes way back, according to Words@Random from Random House: "The tar baby is a form of a character widespread in African folklore. In various folktales, gum, wax or other sticky material is used to trap a person." The term itself was popularized by the 19th-century Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris, in which...
...boat between island and shore in HaLong Bay, I was invited to share a meal with the dozen other passengers, all males. Glasses brimming with beer and vodka were passed around and repeatedly refilled. Tureens of steaming fish arrived and disappeared into empty stomachs. They kept raising random toasts to nothing—over twenty in all. Only halfway through the meal did I glance around and notice the only woman on board. I realized she had cooked our food, served it, and was now holding the boat steady on course until the men finished their meal and deigned...
...panic. The foreigners and young people who have never experienced war are freaked out. And the Lebanese who lived through the civil war and remember it well are worried, too. I spent two years working for TIME magazine in Baghdad, where the citizenry scurries about in fear of hateful random violence. Beirut is not Baghdad - yet - but it could get that way if this keeps...
...every “dude” or “no way,” or random guitar solo you hear—this for the fans of alcohol poisoning in the audience...