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Why You Must See Unretouched Images…

Jeffrey — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:33:47 +0000

And as long as we’re on the topic of bullshit: the degree to which the female-targeted media industrial complex wants to keep these images away

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Google’s Earth

Jeffrey — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:31:10 +0000

We have yet to take Google’s measure. We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we already perceive much of our world through it. We would

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Business Journalism’s Image Problem

Jeffrey — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:23:47 +0000

We are living in the age of number-crunchers, not narrators. On Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, in Bangalore and in Shanghai, the new technologies and

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Writers and Critics

Jeffrey — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:54:18 +0000

Writing, remember, is the only art in which the creator is publicly judged by people who do precisely the same thing, but as a rule

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Revisiting Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire

Jeff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:00:54 +0000

At once rarefied and accessible, with a singular visual style that’s impossible to carbon-date, Wings has earned its place alongside the likes of The Seventh

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24M Bachelors Condemned to Life Without a Wife

Jeff — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:00:53 +0000

The country’s leading think-tank describes the gender imbalance among newborns as the most serious demographic problem facing China. The surplus of bachelors — known as

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A New Turn in Dark Tourism Comes to Haiti

Jeff — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:00:32 +0000

Paging David Foster Wallace:

A huge Royal Caribbean liner docked 60 miles away from Haiti’s devastation in the heavily guarded resort of Labadee, and it

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Against repressive antisentimentalism

Jeff — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:00:27 +0000

Marriage is Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell standing side by side in the closing scene of His Girl Friday, nattering on with the same jollity

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College Ivy Sprouts at a CT Prison

Jeff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:00:30 +0000

During her class in the prison, Professor Richards walked a fine line between energizing her students with the demands of real scholarship and scaring them

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Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies

Jeff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:09 +0000

In any society, he maintained, “the purpose of a myth is to provide a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction.”

As he saw it,

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