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Ladies’ Night —Circling the Bases on Okinawa

 ONLINE SPECIAL BY AKEMI JOHNSON    We careened south toward Okinawa’s capital city, Naha, after eleven on a Saturday night. On the left, the U.S. military base fences flashed,…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2791 words)

The Princess and the Trolls: The Heartrending Legend of Adalia Rose, the Most Reviled Six-Year-Old Girl on the Internet

Like many things of great consequence, it all started with "Ice Ice Baby." Adalia Rose Williams, at the age of five years, made a video of herself dancing to the Vanilla Ice hit, and the dancing…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 22, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8101 words)

Return to River Town

There is excellent cell phone coverage at the bottom of the Yangtze River, although Huang Dejian is one of the few people who know this. He’s the director of the new White Crane Ridge…
PUBLISHED: March 16, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4229 words)

How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed?

The voices told Andre Thomas to gouge out his eyes. But even that hasn't convinced the state of Texas to reconsider his death sentence. By Marc Bookman on Tue. February 12, 2013 3:00 AM PDT Andre…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6046 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)

The problem with the Red Cross

If you thought the official New York marathon statement about being cancelled was tone-deaf, just wait until you hear this — on video, no less: Gail McGovern, chief executive officer and…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2240 words)

The House That Hova Built

By ZADIE SMITH | September 6, 2012 It’s difficult to know what to ask a rapper. It’s not unlike the difficulty (I imagine) of being a rapper. Whatever you say must be considered from at…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (884 words)

My Life as an Heiress

I never knew why my mother wasn’t close to her brother, Hal. I can guess. It’s possible that he didn’t help out financially with their parents. It’s possible that she…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 11, 2010
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2385 words)

Lost loves and lost years

In the golden age of American travel, the platforms of train stations were knee deep in what looked like fog. You see it all the time in black-and-white movies, these low-lying eddies of silver. I…
PUBLISHED: April 20, 2009
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3865 words)
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