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A teacher says her principal wouldn't let her get her broken arm treated until the end of the day. A manager writes about a company owner who said he couldn't afford a portable toilet for his staff when the office pipes froze for two weeks--even as his...
"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings," Shakespeare's poetic (and doomed) Richard II prophetically says in the play named after him. "Some have been depos'd," he goes on, some "haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd ... all murder'd...
Abu Mousab Al-Zarqawi didn't have to be in a room to silence it. Dozens of times in the past three years, I have sat with insurgent leaders, listening to their bombastic pronouncements and boastful tales of "victorious battles" against U.S. forces, complete with verbal sound effects of gunfire...
Fantastic stories often stray into fantasy—who knew? As if faux-memoir writer James Frey weren’t enough, hip literary circles have been rocked by the revelation that the author JT LeRoy is just a phantom of two washed-up rockers’ imaginations. LeRoy, HIV...
DIED. Shohei Imamura, 79, influential director of post-World War II Japan's new wave, who told haunting, often surreal tales of prostitutes, pimps and working-class heroes; in Tokyo. Rejecting the idealized, selfless protagonists of classical Japanese film, he depicted resilient men and women who guard their dignity even...