I Was Teenage Hockey Message Board Jailbait Have you ever been caught in a lie? Or caught stealing or speeding or cheating? Maybe you’ve known the impossible weight of the hand on your shoulder, the blinding twirl of the lights in your rearview mirror, the razor-sharp voice of your teacher or wife. Maybe you’ve felt […]
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The New School of Fish
The New School of Fish Belov was incensed about the tuna, and he took it off his menu. He’ll keep it off until he can find an honest dealer. “That one was hard, pulling ahi tuna off my menu,” he says, and then pauses. “I had so many people walk up to the fish market […]
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The New School of Fish
The New School of Fish Belov was incensed about the tuna, and he took it off his menu. He’ll keep it off until he can find an honest dealer. “That one was hard, pulling ahi tuna off my menu,” he says, and then pauses. “I had so many people walk up to the fish market […]
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The Wave-Maker: On Big Wave Surfer Ken Bradshaw
The Wave-Maker: On Big Wave Surfer Ken Bradshaw [Mark] Foo said, “But, no, no, this is really it, isn’t it? Just two guys in the water. Fifteen- to 18-foot swells. Perfect waves. No sections. This is as good as it gets.” Bradshaw said, “Yes, Mark. This is what it’s about.” A light came on in […]
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Dealing with Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled
Dealing with Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled Criminalizing the publication of such secrets by someone who has no official obligation seems to me to run up against the First Amendment and the best traditions of this country. As one of my colleagues asks: If Assange were an understated professorial type rather than a […]
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Dealing with Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled
Dealing with Julian Assange and the Secrets He Spilled Criminalizing the publication of such secrets by someone who has no official obligation seems to me to run up against the First Amendment and the best traditions of this country. As one of my colleagues asks: If Assange were an understated professorial type rather than a […]
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The Last Temptation of Ted Haggard
The Last Temptation of Ted Haggard What his wife’s book didn’t do was settle the question of Ted’s sexuality or give insight into how it plays out in their marriage now—whether Ted still battles the same urges that got him to Mike Jones’s massage table. And if so, does he tell her when it happens? […]
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The Last Temptation of Ted Haggard
The Last Temptation of Ted Haggard What his wife’s book didn’t do was settle the question of Ted’s sexuality or give insight into how it plays out in their marriage now—whether Ted still battles the same urges that got him to Mike Jones’s massage table. And if so, does he tell her when it happens? […]
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Body Snatchers
Body Snatchers About the same time that Rose Oprea was hospitalized for her stroke, the 62nd precinct of the New York City police department, in Brooklyn, was notified of a possible case of fraud. A couple — Deborah Johnson and her husband, Robert Nelms — had recently purchased the Daniel George & Son Funeral Home. […]
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Body Snatchers
Body Snatchers About the same time that Rose Oprea was hospitalized for her stroke, the 62nd precinct of the New York City police department, in Brooklyn, was notified of a possible case of fraud. A couple — Deborah Johnson and her husband, Robert Nelms — had recently purchased the Daniel George & Son Funeral Home. […]