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...front of his mother. "Picking up a guitar in the first place was braver than any of the songs that I wrote," says Allan, a semiprofessional footballer until the band took off. "When you're a kid, drinking, playing football or kissing girls are never going to be frowned upon. But when you start to let your guard down and express yourself, then there's room for people to take the piss...
...have to hand it to travel writers who take on huge subjects. And traversing Europe, Russia, central Asia, India, southeast Asia and Japan by various modes of transport (mostly rail), then writing a 500-page book about the journey - with detail piled upon observational detail - is pretty huge. It takes guts, and some might say a bit of hubris, even...
...yesterday, drawing surprise from MAC employees unused to seeing such concentrated numbers at 8 a.m., and spilling out the doors of their destination—a mirrored third floor room outfitted with 24 stationary bikes, a string of Christmas lights, and a zealous instructor promising to visit unusual pains upon the entrants. The turnout for the occasion—billed in an online schedule of opening day events as a “dynamic stationary group cycling experience,” with the added advantage of being “set to motivating music”—appeared...
...Palin’s active brand of Christian faith displays internal contradictions as well, the hypocrisies that always dwell with zeal. Asked whether she thinks evolution or creationism should be taught to Alaskan schoolchildren, Palin fell back upon the language of free speech: “Teach both. You know, don’t be afraid of information…Healthy debate is so important, and it’s so valuable in our schools.” Yet, as mayor of Wasilla, Palin hoped to ban certain books from the town library. For Palin, the belief that the Judeo...
...when Dominique Rossi, a respected police officer posted to Corsica as the island's senior security official was disciplined for not acting upon intelligence information ahead of the house invasion, the hand wringing began. Critics allege that Sarkozy himself intervened on his friend's behalf...