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Full disclosure: I have two young sons, and if anything, Pollack gets my experience unsettlingly right. I live in Brooklyn, which along with the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles is the apparent epicenter of the hipster-parent movement. When one of my kids requests the Magnetic Fields on the iPod, I swell with pride as fathers of another era did when their sons completed touchdown passes. And if it's easy to criticize Pollack's preciousness, it's because, like a good, self-aware Gen Xer, he does it for you. "I wonder," he writes, "what Ariel Dorfman, Primo...
DIED. Willye White, 67, philanthropic track-and-field star, five-time U.S. Olympian and two-time silver medalist who dominated the long jump for nearly two decades; of pancreatic cancer; in Chicago. After winning second place for the long jump in 1956, White, a longtime mentor to inner-city youth, took home her second silver medal for the 4 x 100-m relay in 1964 and made her final Olympic appearance in Munich...
...read: writing papers). My flight was scheduled to leave at 6 p.m., so I took the T not long after 4 p.m. (I now get why people take cabs all the time, despite the fact that it’s twenty times as expensive.) As I arrived at the Silver Line shuttle stop just in time to see the crowded car drive away, I glanced at my watch, beginning to worry.4:40…4:45…4:50…I was in trouble, but I was optimistic when I got to the airport with a good forty...
...lights with a water cannon (no radical laser was readily available) and determined that it was harmless. Over the next six hours, the BPD stomped around Boston shutting down highways, subways, waterways, and whatever sort of-ways the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority counts for the Silver Line, with more action-packed disorder than the first six hours of “24.” (Disappointingly, however, nobody at Turner Broadcasting System, the company that broadcasts the insidious television program in question, was brutally tortured by a rogue and totally awesome BPD officer.) Although similar lights were found...
...Sasaya - who sells specialty salt over the Internet - decided it was time to move back. "I wanted to do everything I can to help my hometown," he says. And despite Yubari's woes, Sasaya looks for the silver lining: "One thing I think we can be proud of is that no one has committed suicide...