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It Happened To Me: My Parents Adopted a Murderer

Every other day or so, my father emails pictures to me. They are photos of me as a child, apple-cheeked and smiling -- there I am with long braids the color of wheat, squinting into…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2041 words)

Recounting the deadly hazing that destroyed FAMU band's reputation

The young man stood at the front of Bus C, his ribs rising and falling with each breath. Before him stood about 20 members of one of the best marching bands in the world, Florida A&M's Marching…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2612 words)

Mugglemarch

Rowling says, “There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher.” The conifer hedges in front of J. K. Rowling’s…
AUTHOR:Ian Parker
PUBLISHED: Oct. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1070 words)

"Is he coming? Is he? Oh God, I think he is."

Two hours after the bomb explodes in Oslo, Adrian Pracon hears two sharp bangs, like a hammer striking metal. The noises come from the lawn down the hill, between the main white building and the…
AUTHOR:Sean Flynn
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10203 words)

Hunting Down My Son's Killer

I found my son's killer. It took three years. But we did it. I should clarify one point: my son is very much alive. Yet, my wife Cristina and I have been found responsible for his death. My son…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5096 words)

Pain Is A Gift, And Other Notes From A Terrified Father During A Seven-Week-Premature Birth

When the baby cried, I knew it wasn't gonna die. They had just pulled my son out of my wife and whisked him over to one of those fancy hotel pans that you put newborns in, and there was a brief…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3216 words)

The Inconvenient Astrologer Of MI5

In the summer of 1941, delegates at the American Federation of Scientific Astrologers’ convention in Cleveland, Ohio, listened to a keynote address from an astrologer named Louis de Wohl. The…
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2128 words)

The Case Against Google

For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4024 words)

The Forgotten Hero

On the last day of his short life Mike Reily awoke in a hospital bed at Touro Infirmary in his native New Orleans, barely a mile from the house in which he was raised. It was Saturday, July 25,…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6796 words)
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