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...husband, recently killed in action) and for polemical journalism (George Packer's Betrayed, based on his reportage about the plight of Iraqi citizens who went to work for the Americans early in the war, then were abandoned to face sectarian revenge). Some plays are stripped-down monologues, like Judith Thompson's Palace of the End, in which an Iraqi woman, a British weapons expert and a U.S. soldier who took part in prisoner abuse tell their stories; others are more ambitious, experimental and experiential. Coming soon to off-off-Broadway: a 3 1/2-hour environmental-theater event called Surrender, in which...
...current mess did not begin with subprime mortgages. It started with Ronald Reagan and his myths of de-regulation - which have led to the false-fronted stores built from Karl Rove's architectural designs. The Republicans and their ideological ilk have peddled lies and we followed in lockstep. Dan Thompson, Union...
...captain David Tune explained. “We’re definitely going to Northern’s and I don’t think we’re in a terrible spot, even with these two losses.”FORDHAM 14, HARVARD 6Sophomore Alex Thompson netted another hat trick to lead the Harvard attack, while Tune, sophomore Bret Voith, and freshman Mike Katzer rounded out the scoring in a difficult loss to the Rams (9-8, 1-3 CWPA). After a morning game in New Rochelle, N.Y., the Crimson quickly headed to the Bronx, where...
...true; FieldReport checks up on the winners to verify that their narratives aren't fictional. The site's benefit for both writers and readers, according to the founders, is its sense of community. "The blogosphere hasn't given people an effective outlet for publishing this kind of story," Thompson says, "because unless you're really savvy, you're actually just jettisoning your stories into space. FieldReport brings readers together in one place, and allows them to search by content, instead of scavenging through the wilderness...
...what's in it for Petty and Thompson? "For me, it's about storytelling," Petty says. "I have a very deep psychological motivation: I want this site to be an opportunity for people to think more overtly of their life in terms of story." But FieldReport has a business plan as well: it envisions making money from advertising, from albums of story collections that members create on the site and buy for about $10 each, and from a story archive Petty has designed, which asks writers and readers to pay about $20 to include their prose. "Once...