August 2010
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“NY Times Columnist on Beck: ‘I Underestimated the Man’”
– Glenn Beck’s new site, The Blaze, tagged under “Faith.” This is one of five articles about or from Beck, including “Kurtz Defends Beck: He’s Not Like Al Qaeda.”
“A tale of unbearable emptiness, Goodnight Moon is at once a dusky nightmare and...”
– “Again, I Ask: Are Picture Books Leading Our Children Astray?” The Millions
(It’s the song in the 127 Hours trailer.)
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China Traffic Jam to Last Until September, When... →
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“Recently, an editor at Slate asked me to write a back-to-school shopping column...”
– “Long Live the Trapper-Keeper,” Slate
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“But after realising that the more she has blended into Runway’s world the...”
– “Think the boss in The Devil Wears Prada was a total monster? Well she was even scarier in real life,” Daily Mail
“And in Byrne’s life, it’s all about her: “Whenever I hear something, even if...”
– Review of crazy self-help book The Power, by Rhonda Byrne (author of crazy self-help book The Secret), Newsweek
“If you can’t man up like this Bieber person, but have decided for whatever...”
– “Pay Attention and Leave Me Alone,” Newsweek
“The magazine’s audience attracts advertisers as specialized as its...”
– “An Airline Magazine That Makes Travelers Want to Pull the Rip Cord” WSJ
“[Sudanese] officials concede that a lot of money is needed…to transform two...”
– The Associated Press: Animal shaped cities? South Sudan unveils big plan (via themorningnews)
“The main thing I do is speak on college campuses, which is about the equivalent...”
– Ann Coulter (via Politico)
“Century 21 is literally across the street from where the World Trade Center once...”
– Matthew Yglesias at ThinkProgress (via Newsweek)
The Section Quartet cover of Radiohead's... →
(via David)
Update: Thanks, guys! Link fixed.
“An earlier version of this article misstated the location of the “potty cam”...”
– A correction from the The New York Times Book Review’s take on Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars. Gives you an idea of how great the book is. Check out my review here on Newsweek.com.
“Jedi really aren’t warriors. They’re negotiators. They’re like...”
– George Lucas on Jedi
““This was pure fun. I have never played like this before,” said Tan,...”
– “Chinese teens sample American summer camp”, LA Times
“I look like a prune. Don’t run away from home at too early an age or...”
– A letter from James Dean to on-off girlfriend Barbara Glenn (via Letters of Note)
“The cupcake downturn cannot come soon enough. Every time I drag myself into the...”
– Against Cupcakes, Slate
“I know he knows who I am. Why did he have to lie and say he didn’t know...”
– Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, on President Obama. (E Online)
“The city, it turns out, has a law against tasteful restraint in Times Square.
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– “Good Taste in Times Square? It’s Illegal” WSJ
“If the future of prisons is to be turned inside out, with criminals in the wild...”
– Graeme Wood ponders the future of prisons without walls.
(via theatlantic)
“Okay, so 17-year-old Cree Bautista is not the only show-choir member languishing...”
– Daily Intel
Professors: Hot at Their Own Risk →
“You have to be acceptable-looking, but being gorgeous can be a problem,” says Judith Waters, a professor of psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University who does research on beauty and success.
