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Beyond a joke: the truth about why we laugh

'Women couldn't care less whether their ideal male partner laughs or not – they want a male who makes them laugh.' Photograph by Getty Consider the bizarre events of the 1962 outbreak of contagious…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2461 words)

The women changing Britain's unions

From left, Sian Rabi-Laleh of Unison, Alice Hood and Scarlet Harris of the TUC, Helen Parker-Jayne Isibor of the Musicians' Union, Becky Wright of the TUC and Natalie Jacottet of the CWU. Photograph:…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2999 words)

Mick Jagger Remembers | Music News

December 14, 1995 4:55 PM ET Mick Jagger on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' Peter Lindbergh Being interviewed is one of Mick Jagger's least favorite pastimes, a necessity that accompanies his career. A…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 14, 1995
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3686 words)

The Madness of General Mladic

1. The Serbian Orthodox church in the Bosnian Serb border town of Bijeljina is a modest, dark gray building a few blocks from the central square. On Wednesday, June 28, 1995, local peasants and…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 5, 1995
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1802 words)

Greece: Trying to understand SYRIZA

This is less of a blog more of a series of notes to try and enhance understanding of who SYRIZA and its leader Alexis Tsipras actually are, and how they might behave if, as polls suggest, they become…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2095 words)

How to Win American Idol

I really wanted to be an American Idol. I even auditioned twice. The first time, I showed off my R&B stylings; the second time, I went full-on drama-club-kid and belted out a Broadway ballad. I…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (901 words)

The Wrath of Putin

Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when he dared confront then president Vladimir Putin, criticizing state corruption at a meeting with Putin in February 2003. Arrested that fall,…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6664 words)

Could Wales leave the United Kingdom?

Leanne Wood is rather different from most of the UK's politicians. Forty years old and a mother of one, she still lives in the same street in the Rhondda Valley where she was born and brought up.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2577 words)

A Massacre in Jamaica

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about the deaths of more than seventy people during a police and military assault on the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica, in May of 2010. The trouble…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (602 words)
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