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...started. I was injured, the competition was getting tougher - Internet thing was starting to make big noise - and I needed to stay in the starting lineup. Don't get me wrong, I'd always kept myself in good shape. Worked out at the Journalists' Gym on the West Side: I could already bench press four Webster's International dictionaries. But there were too many guys who were stronger, yet they didn't seem to be working out any harder. And they were racking up the bylines. I'm talking about economics writers who couldn't lift a comma. What were...
...rock star. He had a goofy optimism and he wouldn’t let himself get too down about anything.” But the role still offered challenges for the actor: “It was also fun to play someone who had a narcissistic side and who was clueless about the real world.” When looking for a role, Reilly says he looks for new opportunities to practice his craft. “I like stuff I haven’t done before—stuff that makes me a little bit nervous. That?...
...He’s crazy. 4. You—If Mims can sell a mill (digitally, anyway) saying nothing on the track, I’ve got to point the finger your way, because I know I didn’t buy that shit. On the bright side though, you’ve still got your health. Am I right? 3. 50 Cent—He made a name for himself by being one of the hardest men in the game, not to mention alive. Now all he wants to do is buy us candy and take...
...raped or 80,000? The whole truth may never be known. According to Samuel Yamashita, a professor at Pomona College in the U.S., details of the massacre and other atrocities were swept under the rug in postwar Japan, because the U.S. needed a strong Japanese nation on their side to counterbalance the growing threat of Communist China. "Execute a few heinous individuals and forget about everything else." That's how Joshua Fogel, a modern Asian studies historian at York University in the U.S., describes the American response to the massacre. "Just imagine if that had been the solution for postwar...
...Independent Chinese and Japanese study commissions were set up to mark the massacre's 70th anniversary. Meanwhile, a Harvard-sponsored joint study on the Sino-Japanese War has contributed Chinese, Japanese and English scholarship that promises to narrow the gaps between Nanjing accounts. "A joint project can socialize each side to accept that the other side is working in good faith," says Fogel. "It can also reflect on how one's own side may be basing conclusions on something other than hard data." Iris Chang may have begun the truth-finding process when, in an effort to explore...