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Anthropology Inc.

On a hot Austin night last summer, 60 natives convened for a social rite involving stick-on mustaches, paella, and a healthy flow of spirits. Young lesbians formed the core of the crowd. The two…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5743 words)

General Failure

On June 13, 1944, a few days after the 90th Infantry Division went into action against the Germans in Normandy under the command of Brigadier General Jay MacKelvie, MacKelvie’s superior…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1912 words)

Led by an innocent into a web of evil

As soon as they saw the terrified boy’s photo three years ago, federal agents Peter Manning and Gregory Squire had the same thought: we have to save him. The blue-eyed child, about 18 months…
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4429 words)
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When celebrities become philanthropists

Looking good: Trevor and Maggie Neilson, founders of Global Philanthropy Group. Photograph: Stephanie Diani On a recent afternoon in Santa Monica, Trevor Neilson met with his staff at Global…
PUBLISHED: July 29, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3833 words)

The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek Verso, 1,038 pp., $69.95                      …
AUTHOR:John Gray
PUBLISHED: July 12, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3815 words)

A Case so Cold it was Blue

GOOD COP, GOOD COP Detectives Dan Jaramillo, left, and Greg Stearns at police headquarters in L.A., where they questioned Stephanie Lazarus, a fellow police officer, about the decades-old murder of…
PUBLISHED: July 5, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (361 words)

Writing Britain: the nation and the landscape

'Everything fell wetly to bits': Fay Godwin photograph for Ted Hughes's Remains of Elmet. Photograph: Fay Godwin Can Britlit be said to exist? Britart is an accepted term, and Damien Hirst, Tracey…
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3608 words)

Life after Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry, Jason Alexander as George, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine and Michael Richards as Kramer in Seinfeld. Photograph: NBCUPHOTOBANK/Rex Features When Jerry Seinfeld tours the UK…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1775 words)

Morocco's Extraordinary Donkeys

The donkey I couldn't forget was coming around a corner in the walled city of Fez, Morocco, with six color televisions strapped to his back. If I could tell you the exact intersection where I saw…
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9159 words)
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