Innocence Found “All charges have been dropped.” Anthony Graves looked at her, dumbfounded. “You’re free,” she said more emphatically. “You’re going home.” “Are you playing with me?” he whispered. Cásarez shook her head. “It’s over,” she said. “It’s finally over.” On the table beside her was a dismissal order from the court filed at 3:57 […]
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Innocence Found
Innocence Found “All charges have been dropped.” Anthony Graves looked at her, dumbfounded. “You’re free,” she said more emphatically. “You’re going home.” “Are you playing with me?” he whispered. Cásarez shook her head. “It’s over,” she said. “It’s finally over.” On the table beside her was a dismissal order from the court filed at 3:57 […]
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Leaving Egypt, with Regrets: The Evacuated Students of Cairo
Leaving Egypt, with Regrets: The Evacuated Students of Cairo Through the dense fog, Gunnar saw a lone old man stand in the middle of a deserted street, berating a fearsome wall of police. Then the helmeted officers began charging, firing a hail of bullets. Gunnar dove behind a car. His pants split. He couldn’t tell […]
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Atlantic Cover Story: Mind vs. Machine
Atlantic Cover Story: Mind vs. Machine In May 1989, Mark Humphrys, a 21-year-old University College Dublin undergraduate, put online an Eliza-style program he’d written, called “MGonz,” and left the building for the day. A user (screen name “Someone”) at Drake University in Iowa tentatively sent the message “finger” to Humphrys’s account—an early-Internet command that acted […]
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An Evening with J.D. Salinger
An Evening with J.D. Salinger In the apartment, which was a brownstown further uptown, Salinger asked us what we would like to drink. I offered my help getting out the ice, but no, he’d prefer to do it himself. The bar’s bottles and glasses were arranged at one end of a counter between the small […]
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An Evening with J.D. Salinger
An Evening with J.D. Salinger In the apartment, which was a brownstown further uptown, Salinger asked us what we would like to drink. I offered my help getting out the ice, but no, he’d prefer to do it himself. The bar’s bottles and glasses were arranged at one end of a counter between the small […]
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#Longreads #List: Stories on Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post
#Longreads #List: Stories on Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post
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The Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Effexor, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, Restoril, Xanax, Adderall, Ritalin, Haldol, Risperdal, Seroquel, Ambien, Lunesta, Elavil, Trazodone War
The Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Effexor, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, Restoril, Xanax, Adderall, Ritalin, Haldol, Risperdal, Seroquel, Ambien, Lunesta, Elavil, Trazodone War Depending on the war, post-traumatic stress can have many expressions, but this war, because of its omnipresent suicide bombers and roadside explosives, seems to have disproportionately rendered its soldiers afraid of two things: […]
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The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology The writer-director forwarded his resignation to more than twenty Scientologist friends, including Anne Archer, John Travolta, and Sky Dayton, the founder of EarthLink. “I felt if I sent it to my friends they’d be as horrified as I was, and they’d ask questions as well,” he […]
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The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology
The Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology The writer-director forwarded his resignation to more than twenty Scientologist friends, including Anne Archer, John Travolta, and Sky Dayton, the founder of EarthLink. “I felt if I sent it to my friends they’d be as horrified as I was, and they’d ask questions as well,” he […]