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9/11: The View From the Midwest

August 19, 2011 3:07 PM ET Displays of patriotism across the country; this house is in rural Maine. Joe Raedle/Getty Images This essay, by the late novelist David Foster Wallace, appeared in the Octob
PUBLISHED: Aug. 19, 2011
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1317 words)

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in 72 | Politics News

Hunter S. Thompson Michael Ochs Archives/GettyImages This story is from the July 5th, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone. "Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are…
PUBLISHED: July 5, 1973
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2734 words)

Life after Seinfeld

When Jerry Seinfeld tours the UK and Ireland in May, following last year's £100-a-pop, sell-out show at London's O2 Arena, it will be 14 years since the end of his groundbreaking sitcom…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1666 words)

Come, Japanese!

On the boat we were mostly virgins. We had long black hair and flat wide feet and we were not very tall. Some of us had eaten nothing but rice gruel as young girls and had slightly bowed legs, and…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (604 words)

The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever

Jeffrey Mitchell, a volunteer firefighter in the suburbs of Baltimore, came across the accident by chance: A car had smashed into a pickup truck loaded with metal pipes. Mitchell tried to help, but…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6125 words)
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