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Fortunately the record is a beautifully grotesque creation, one that Swan Lake’s members could never have devised on their own. Together, they form a disfigured, fucked-up beast whose aching, thickly-layered moans elicit both shock and pathos...
...Fitzsimmons says, referencing his own experience as a Harvard undergraduate. “I was one of those students,” he says, “I had no college in my background, we had no money. I will certainly confess that Harvard was bit of a cultural shock...
...research was mixed. Researchers discovered two genes that appear to contribute to early heart attacks, in part by causing blood to clot abnormally. A small emergency-room study found that drugs used to break up clots may help revive cardiac-arrest patients when such methods as CPR and electrical shock have failed. There were murkier findings regarding people with high levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease. Folic acid and B vitamins help bring homocysteine down, but one study cast doubt on whether this actually improves heart health...
Americans have watched the downfall of Reverend Ted Haggard with a mixture of shock and, well, shock. The man who just one month ago was one of the nation’s most respected evangelical leaders, president of the 30 million strong National Association of Evangelicals, and one of the country’s most outspoken critics of homosexuality, seems to have been fibbing. In particular, he sparked some confusion late last month when a former male escort, Mike Jones of Denver, accused Haggard of having solicited sexual relations and narcotics from him multiple times over a three year period...
...Tabatabainejad’s pleading begins to arouse protest, the cameraman moves to a better vantage point to continue filming the incident. What follows reeks of police brutality; the officers repeatedly shock Tabatabainejad for refusing to cooperate...