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Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Here are the answers: Mike Selinker Lone Shark Games Before the hunt...
Vince Young is shaping up to be the best story of this NFL season. Maybe that's just the sportswriter in me talking. (Yes, I actually have a sportswriter living INSIDE me. It's like a tapeworm, except it eats more.) But the...
By Greta Christina, AlterNet. Share and save this post: Russell Blackford, Udo Schuklenk Upcoming AlterNet stories on Digg If religion really were just a metaphor, just a comforting and inspiring story that gives shape and...
Published Friday, November 20, 2009 Writers from Thucydides to George Orwell have observed that, in political disputes, the meaning of words is often the first casualty. Perhaps I was wrong to be surprised, then, by Yale...
Published Friday, November 20, 2009 The Freshman Class Council has finally resolved its T-shirt troubles, substituting a generic anti-Harvard logo for a problematic F. Scott Fitzgerald line calling Harvard men sissies. I’m glad...
In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for chronicling the rich in The Great Gatsby, supposedly said to Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different than you and me.” To which Hemingway reportedly quipped, “Yes, they have more...
Published Thursday, November 19, 2009 The Freshman Class Council has run into controversy with its T-shirts for The Game. The FCC has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original design, which was submitted by...
From the Gold Coast of Long Island to the hills of Silicon Valley, there is still great wealth to be found in isolated—and protected—enclaves A visitor to Brookville, N.Y., can quickly forget that the tiny village is just off...
Actor Sued Manager for $20M Last Month; Countersuit Claims Cage was Profligate Spender Cage is seen in a May, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo) (AP) Actor Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish...
