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Barbie would never invite them to a pool party. They're categorical misfits in the realm of toys--Munny with hunched shoulders and a potbelly; Gloomy Bear, a pink cub with claws and a bloody muzzle. Unlike mass-produced, cuddly balls of fluff, these figures, once known as urban vinyl toys, have street smarts, loitering in the neighborhood of consumable...
...designed to protect these same ports. The UAE has also signed onto agreements that ban the shipping of nuclear material and that work to cut off funding to terrorist groups. The United States should not risk alienating the UAE through xenophobic passions and politics. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that some of the noise is caused by what amounts to racism. Some U.S. citizens, for whom the designation “Arab” is synonymous with little more than “terrorist,” have managed to wrestle the spotlight onto themselves with misguided...
...Sciences seizes upon wrongdoings that few outside the academy would conceive of as wrong and then tenaciously holds on, overseeing the two-year-long persecution of their boss for these well-publicized thought crimes and for a cornucopia of unenumerated slights against one too many egos.It is also a realm where that besieged leader, a man thought to be unabashed, suddenly refuses to defend himself. Just as his supporters are itching for a fight where his absurd critics would be made to look, well, absurd, he inexplicably backs down. Everywhere he goes, he utters mealy-mouthed platitudes and apologizes...
...ordinary defector came when the agents ran a computer check on his identity. "All of a sudden," recalls the Cuban, "they were shaking my hand, congratulating me, asking for my autograph." Was he a political dissident? A pop singer? A baseball pitcher? In fact, in his own realm he was an even bigger catch. He was Rolando Sarabia, 23, a star of Cuba's National Ballet, whose spectacular performances have won him a reputation among dance aficionados as another Mikhail Baryshnikov...
...started with patronage, where you got to make art if the Pope liked it, then we moved to copyright, which moves it into the realm of industrial capital. Given the falling cost of capitalizing art, we’re now moving into a place where audience interest is a much closer indicator of whether art gets to exist...