Search Results for: Outside

We’ll Always Have McSorley’s

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I discovered the following lines from an e. e. cummings poem that the editor of the anthology had titled “Snug and Warm Inside McSorley’s”: I was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was new york and beautifully snowing. “It’s a bar,” said Lola, my girlfriend in those days. “In New York City.”

Author: Robert Day
Published: Nov 11, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,263 words)

It Was Rubio’s Tuesday: ‘The Most Important Freshman Senator’

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Marco Rubio’s strategists were brutally direct in a memo to the candidate on July 10, 2009. “The hard truth is that no one outside of a small number of activists cares about you right now as a stand-alone candidate. And our 2nd quarter fundraising numbers will make many care even less.” The only plausible path to victory was for Rubio to become the Anti-Crist, and the most important point of contrast would be support for the Obama agenda.

Source: Weekly Standard
Published: Nov 6, 2010
Length: 21 minutes (5,446 words)

The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street

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Nick Denton cast himself as a media outsider. That’s how he made it inside.

Published: Sep 26, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,051 words)

M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop

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“I kind of want to be an outsider,” she said, eating a truffle-flavored French fry. “I don’t want to make the same music, sing about the same stuff, talk about the same things. If that makes me a terrorist, then I’m a terrorist.”

Published: May 25, 2010
Length: 32 minutes (8,135 words)

How Susie Bayer’s T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama’s Back

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If you’ve ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you’ve dressed an African. All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want.

Published: Mar 31, 2002
Length: 25 minutes (6,255 words)

Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

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The American scientist was catching a glimpse of an emerging test of the world’s food resources, one that has begun to take shape over the last year, largely outside the bounds of international scrutiny. A variety of factors — some transitory, like the spike in food prices, and others intractable, like global population growth and water scarcity — have created a market for farmland, as rich but resource-deprived nations in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere seek to outsource their food production to places where fields are cheap and abundant.

Published: Nov 16, 2009
Length: 17 minutes (4,485 words)

Inside the Islamic Emirate

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We’re in Pakistan, I thought to myself. We’re dead. Eight days earlier, a Taliban faction had kidnapped me along with an Afghan journalist, Tahir Luddin, and our driver, Asad Mangal, during a reporting trip just outside Kabul.

Published: Oct 18, 2009
Length: 25 minutes (6,454 words)

Tropical Depression in Cuba

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August in Havana is a mounting wave of heat—so consuming, the sun so piercing, it can warp your sense of reason. Tempt you to surrender. Make you flirt with insanity. The pained faces around you are covered in grimy sweat, a haze of resignation in the eyes. Here or there a woman fans herself, perhaps with some ladylike, store-bought thing, but more often with a stray scrap of cardboard. Inside, heat radiates from every surface, the temperature rising as the torridity soaks deeper into the concrete walls. Outside is worse. Few dare venture into the scorching light.

Source: VQR
Published: Apr 11, 2009
Length: 13 minutes (3,267 words)