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...occasional mullet for the purpose of a rebellious image in his native Hong Kong. An avid frequenter of Australia's Gold Coast, Yu notes that the mullet is much more common in the Land Down Under. There, he declares, the attitude can be summed up as "mullet for the sake of mullet...
...agnostic about animal rights, leaning toward an attitude of common decency (don't torture them, for God's sake) but avoiding ideology. I drove out to see Wise the other day at his home in a suburb west of Boston. It turned out to be the day Wise began work as a lecturer on animal rights at Harvard Law School...
...their own. Vido's father, ever the concerned parent, advises, "Don't be afraid of being an artist. D.H. Lawrence was an artist through and through; and, for the time being at any rate, you should think as Lawrence. Remember what he used to say, 'Art for my own sake. If I want to write, I write--and if I don't want to, I won't.'" Reciprocating his father's cheerleading, Vido spends much of his letters earnestly bolstering his father's insecurities, including a tirade that begins, "You have enough material for a hundred stories. For Heaven...
When I asked whether, if he became President, he would consider offering either Steve Forbes or McCain a Cabinet post, Bush ruminated about how the desire for power--the power to do good, as well as power for its own sake--is a salve that can heal most political wounds. "I understand how power works," he said. In other words: maybe. He also admitted to "a long memory" for slights. In other words: maybe...
...hippie commune. People here shop at the Gap, for Christ's sake," objects Weddington to suggestions that most Co-opers are very leftist. The Gap? But what about the big poster on the wall protesting Gap sweatshop use? At the top of one flight of stairs is a mural, known as the "Tribute to Karl Marx." Surrounding a photo of the socialist and a rising red Communist star, the words "Workers of the World Unite" are written in a plethora of languages. The dining room is decorated with half a dozen Communist posters in vivid reds and oranges. "Not everyone...