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...referees ended the game with 45.9 sec. left, and the Pacers were forced to exit through a shower of popcorn, beer and venom from Detroit fans. Nine fans were hurt, none seriously. But the rumble in Detroit quickly turned into another spectacularly American experience--bad sports behavior morphing into trash television. Booyah! Artest, apologetic but clueless, was soon appearing on the Today show promoting the rap album he had just produced, looking as though he had scheduled everything on his Palm Pilot: Friday, beat the poms-poms out of a fan; Monday, work on that p.r. campaign! Green...
...always had some attachment to trash and to junk, and I started to think about garbage as an interesting way into questions about how people see material objects, and how material objects reflect progress in society,” Pasternack says over lunch...
Collecting trash from the street is no longer the lone province of garbage men and the homeless. Alex L. Pasternack’s obsession with trash has helped him acquire two fully functional fax machines (“Because, hey, you can always use an extra fax machine”), a collection of journals written in Japanese that may or may not have been from the Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in New York and a large red shopping cart. He’s also gotten a thesis...
...can’t bear it anymore. I sit in my room “doing work,” but in reality I am procrasturbating. “Oh, you who wastes time! You sit learning about everyone in your section via thefacebook.com and you organize the trash in your bedroom into neat piles. Tomorrow you will actually go to lecture for one of your Core classes. Have you lost all focus...
...came to learn the limitations of his power after he arrived in the Palestinian territories following an absence of a quarter-century. His hard-line critics remarked that he had been reduced to the status of "governor of Gaza," responsible for such matters as trash collection. Arafat, who loved power, didn't think much of governance and was ill suited to it. It was one thing to be the icon of Palestinian aspirations, another to manage an economy, deliver health care and pave roads. On top of those challenges, Arafat and his P.L.O. had to compete for popular standing with...