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It’s hard to be an average American male when all the guys around you are extremely hot. A report from inside the chambers of the Men in Love With Gay Men support group.
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Rum Diary
Watching Hunter Thompson watch himself on Charlie Rose, when neither Thompson is comprehensible, can be difficult to follow. Paris Review senior editor Oliver Broudy offers a memorial, remembering a party when Thompson held court.
24 February 2005
New York's currently: stuffed with millions of neighbors we've never met Bush and Putin to announce measures countering nuclear terrorism, including security upgrades at Russia's nuke facilities. Ten killed, 25 injured by car bomb hitting police station in Tikrit, Saddam's home town.
23 February 2005
New York's currently: wondering if we'll resume thinking about the tsunami once the gates are down Shiite alliance nominates Ibrahim Jafari as Iraqi prime minister. Medical examiner's office unable to identify remains of more than a thousand Sept. 11 victims. Photos of genocide victims
Memento Mori
Who was Hunter S. Thompson? To everyone who followed him, he was somebody different. Our writer remembers his reading life with the Good Doctor.
22 February 2005
New York's currently: confusing Gates with construction barriers At least 500 killed in 6.4-magnitude earthquake in central Iran. Israel releases 500 Palestinian prisoners; Palestinians call for the other 7,000 still there to be released. Hunter S. Thompson dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound; his legacy,
Fighting Smog
These are tough days for Rome, with many worried for the Pope’s health. Feeling equally worried for his own and his family’s, a newcomer reports on days of tiny miracles, crossbow makers, and a lack of Ziploc bags.
Tournament Thought
While the idea of the Tournament of Books is excellent, might I suggest an addition to the following years’ tournaments? Audience participation, of course. Your readers would, I am sure, be delighted to weigh in with their own pronouncements on the relative merits of the various books and vote. So
18 February 2005
New York's currently: a refrigerator being open and closed and open and closed… Bush nominates Negroponte for director of national intelligence job, overseeing 15 spy organizations. Top spy position has little political power attached to it without the president's ear, which Negroponte is said to have.
The Unwritten Code of Subway Performers, Written
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal the unspoken rules that govern the work, relationships, and processes that take place every day amongst the city’s many subway musicians, ventriloquists, acrobats, and the like.