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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)

Top 5 Longreads of the Week

2. Since 1979, Brian Murtagh Has Fought to Keep Convicted Murderer Jeffrey MacDonald in Prison Gene Weingarten | Washington Post | December 6, 2012 | 26 minutes (6,594 words) Another look at the…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (277 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
SOURCE:t.co

A bishop behind bars

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Sam Mullet, the renegade Amish bishop convicted on federal hate crime charges for his role in a series of beard-cutting attacks last year, has earned an unlikely nickname in…
SOURCE:The Daily
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6057 words)

A bishop behind bars

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Sam Mullet, the renegade Amish bishop convicted on federal hate crime charges for his role in a series of beard-cutting attacks last year, has earned an unlikely nickname in…
SOURCE:The Daily
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6318 words)

Less news is good news

SummlyPrice: Free | Download A new iPhone app promises to let you read entire news stories in about the time it takes to consume three tweets.   Summly (free, iPhone) uses an algorithm to turn…
SOURCE:The Daily
PUBLISHED: Nov. 2, 2012

Will and Erwynn met at church and fell in love. But they had a big problem—“don’t ask, don’t tell.” The unlikely story of the first gay military union.

Tech. Sgt. Erwynn Umali (right) and Will Behrens (left) at the McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst chapel, where their civil union was held on June 23, 2012.Photo by Jeff Sheng It’s almost Christmas, and I’m…
PUBLISHED: July 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)

FASHION’S FORGOTTEN GOD

You can’t choose your fashion moment. That instant you put something on that is so perfect, it seems to fill in any divots of insecurity, making you feel smooth and strong and tall. Mine came…
SOURCE:The Daily
PUBLISHED: May 24, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1578 words)

CHANGING TIMES

Before Jenna Talackova, there was Chaz Bono; before him, Brandon Teena; and, back in the 1950s, Christine Jorgensen. Transgender people have had a long, loud struggle in the media, from Jerry…
SOURCE:The Daily
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1551 words)
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