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...fame. His dizzying rise made him the subject and star of the movie 8 Mile and the target of critics, who assailed him for spouting bigoted, misogynistic lyrics. All along, Eminem has griped that neither fans nor foes really understood him. In The Way I Am, a recently released "self-portrait" unmediated by movie avatars or record company censorship, he sets the record straight...
Chris Reynolds, a self-employed public-relations specialist, wasn't about to miss a playoff game for his beloved Philadelphia Phillies, who have won just a single World Series title in their 126-year existence. So Reynolds didn't hesitate to shell out $80 for his ticket earlier this month to watch his team pound the Los Angeles Dodgers on a perfect October afternoon at Citizens Bank Park...
...website's archives go back to Oct. 7 and new photos of depressed traders are posted every day. Sad Guys on Trading Floors even comes with its own snarky, self-aware tagline: "Turning the economic crisis into one of those clever Internet memes." Too bad memes can't help insure a mortgage...
...slums and parched villages in which the blackest of deeds are committed. The most ambitious work, a historical drama chronicling the life of the 18th century Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (spelled "Bulha" in the play) grapples, in the words of one character, with the "dark side of the human self" - exile, fatwas, persecution, genocide. There's murder in The Third Knock, forced abortion in Acquittal, sex trafficking in Woman of Sorrow and extortion in Black Is My Robe. Even the most upbeat play, A Granny for All Seasons, about individual freedoms, is clouded by the dark legacy of partition...
...hired as a tenured professor, a candidate must be approved by two-thirds of the tenured faculty and two-thirds of the entire faculty. The relatively low number of lateral hires also contributed to a self-perpetuating cycle of faculty failing to approve candidates, Elhauge said. Because Law School professors expected that few tenured professors would be hired, they were concerned that approving one prospective hire would take away a spot for someone they preferred. “Everyone is only voting for the person they consider the best possible for that slot, and that leads to more disagreement...