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The Strange Time of our Times

Dubious claims made in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine:
Lest you jump to the conclusion that they attend a finishing-school where ladylike deportmant is instilled along with a wobbly grasp of the 3 R’s, both girls are ninth graders at Brearley, a Manhattan girls’ school that prides itself on its high academic standards and is renowned for producing independent-minded young women…
The Machines Men Still Want? by Daphne Merkin
Q: You’re the daughter of the novelist Alice Walker. Why did you decide to take her name instead of your father’s, who is a lawyer?
A: It’s not that important for me right now. Can we talk about something else?
Questions for Rebecca Walker by Deborah Solomon
“Andrea’s work has been about exposing the mechanism of the whole art system,” explained Dan Cameron, senior curator at the New Museum… “It underscores the paradox of ownership and pushes it into a realm that hasn’t been so pointed before.”
Sex, Art and Videotape by Guy Trebay
Now he’s releasing his first solo album, “The Slow Wonder,” under the name A.C. Newman – his initials “sound more rock, like AC/DC,” he explains – having received a grant from a Canadian foundation to record it.
Page Turner by Chris Norris
Carl Nelkin, a 43-year-old Dublin-born Jewish aviation-law consultant, has been trying to improve the situation by “marketing Ireland as a destination for Jewish people to move to.”
The Fading World of Leopold Bloom by Jonathan Wilson
“Golf is the new rock ‘n’ roll,” says Tim Southwell, editor of a new magazine called Golf Punk.
Dressed to the 9-Irons by Horacio Silva

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I don’t like Pepsi, either

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Britney Spears, from her upcoming Outrageous video, via Stereogum, and borrowing a look or two from…
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Shakira, from her Rolling Stone cover appearance

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The least-interesting angle from the N.Y. Times’ panoramic-camera coverage of Reagan’s wake at the Capitol today

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The least-interesting angle from inside Reagan’s casket at the Capitol today

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Twentieth Century Fox, meet award-winning director Chris Cunningham

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From L to R: Chris Cunningham’s 1998 music video for Bjork’s “All is Full of Love,” and Alex Proyas’ 2004 full-length I, Robot.

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Pimp My Ride (Iraq edition): Leather seats, CD changer, and an interim government

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Showing off his new toy: “U.S. President George W. Bush drives Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawar past photographers after their meeting at the Group of Eight Summit in Sea Island, Georgia, June 9, 2004.” (Reuters)

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You should see the third side of his mouth

From “Post’s Woodward: Journalists should have been more skeptical about Iraq war buildup“, Associated Press, June 9, 2004:

”I believe we have a duty to free people and liberate people,” Woodward said Bush told him during interviews for his book ”Plan of Attack.”

From Condoleeza Rice’s remarks to the Republican National Convention, August 1, 2000:

“[George W. Bush] recognizes that the magnificent men and women of America’s armed forces are not a global police force. They are not the world’s 911.”

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

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(Incoherent chart taken from Yahoo News/Los Angeles Times)

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If found, please alert P.T. Anderson

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Have You C.’n This Man?

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Swingin’ Summit: G8, live from Orange County

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