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...contributions eventually selected for publication run the usual gamut of topics, from coming out to first love to poking fun at social strictures ("What Do Gay People Eat?" by Brian Gomez is an effective evocation of parental anxieties). The editors might have employed a firmer hand in weeding out the overly chatty and amateurish fare that obscures some surprisingly well-crafted tales. Yet literary heft is not the issue here so much as bolstering the presence of Malaysia's gay and lesbian community, for whom the publication of Body 2 Body represents a courageous advance. (Read "Why Asia's Gays...
...caveman quip on a website he created, called Congressman?With?Guts.com attracting pledges of $220,000 from nearly 3,000 donors in about three weeks. (Almost 10,000 individuals gave Grayson more than $250,000 immediately after the "die quickly" speech.) Bachmann, meanwhile, took her fundraising appeal to social media and talk radio, asking her supporters to send a message to "Big Sister Pelosi and Big Brother Reid" and the "gangster government." It worked. "The left can't ignore $118,000!!!" she announced on Twitter, boasting of a three-day online fundraising haul...
...close we came to any number of alternate realities: Morgan Stanley going bankrupt, AIG refusing government money, Goldman Sachs buying Wachovia. The detail is comprehensive and chilling, but the big picture is incomplete. The story of how the financial system arrived at such a brink and of the social and political fallout will have to be told by other books...
...shoot was not the Square’s first brush with celebrity this fall. Ben Afleck and the cast of the upcoming flick “The Town” took over the Square earlier this fall, and Aaron Sorkin’s flick, “The Social Network,” chronicling the nascent days of Facebook brought bright lights and cameras to the streets of Cambridge...
Bill Bartley, the General Manager of Mr. Bartley’s Burger Cottage, said he was very pleased with “The Social Network” crew that used his store as a set last month...