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… on the cusp of true stardom. He’s starred in handfuls of comedy films and tried his hat at action hero in Green … beginning, the combination of wealth + sex + beautiful bodies + New York’s Upper Crust has yielded media attention … investigative, Confidential -style tactics of the upstart website TMZ. For these stars, audio and video were just as …
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… prominent politicians, media personalities, and intellectuals have come out recently with harsh critiques of Israeli policy … in the New York Times . The second episode Greenwald points to is a series of columns Roger Cohen wrote for the …
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… in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” I want first to remind us of the complex narrative structure of Whitman’s poem for his … “If thou wast not granted to sing thou would’st surely die” takes its diction from Quaker idiom. Whitman’s mother … his own journey to death. This is one of my central points: not just Lincoln but also Whitman must die in this …
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… live and work in their forefathers’ massive, abandoned bodies until those structures collapse into dust, a practice … the last inhabitant as weightless as a ghost. 2. You might also approach from the sea, and observe that the state … from the miles of machinery that surround them. 4. Coming from the west, you notice a city facing the ocean and …
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… will follow. At the colony, I read the news in what has become my habitual way: a glance at the New York Times website every two or three days. At breakfast one morning in … I was the only one who knew that John Ashbery had died the day before. But every night, as I tried to fall …
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… lots of people are killed. But earthquakes aren’t much more common in Haiti than in, say, the American Midwest. So the … was no escaping death. It literally surrounded us, as bodies were everywhere—on sidewalks and streets, buried in … morgue and main hospital in Port-au-Prince. I made my way also to the central Port-au-Prince business district, a …