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Nasty breakups are bad enough. But what if your ex broadcast your dirty laundry to millions? That's what British actress Tricia Walsh-Smith did infamously on April 10, when she posted the first of three YouTube videos in which she slammed her soon-to-be-ex-husband for everything from his questionable character and inadequate sexual skills to his extended family, whom she disliked. Walsh-Smith's videos, which were collectively viewed more than 4 million times, reflect more than just the despair of a jilted woman. They're part of a larger and fast-growing problem: reputation-wrecking...
...have started a trend. I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad thing,” Hogan says. “There’s some real shit out there,” Hogan continued, citing recent performances by British goth rockers The Mission.The United States is relatively new territory for ATP, and its only previous stateside incursions were held in Los Angeles. Still, Hogan is confident that ATP NY will stand out among American music festivals. The festival is only selling about 2,800 tickets; by comparison, Coachella Music Festival...
...lover of Andrea Levy’s “Small Island.” I picked up the novel this summer because my mother was reading it for her book club. It’s hard not to compare Levy to Smith: both are black, female British authors of Jamaican heritage. More importantly, both produce works that focus on counteracting the dominant voices in British and American history by illuminating an alternative discourse. But in “Small Island,” Levy succeeds where Smith falls short.Levy dexterously handles the profound and complicated themes of a novel...
...Even such an unquestionably eminent Harvard historian and colleague of Professor Darnton as Niall Ferguson, has been accused of serving as an apologist for Western hegemony and the British Empire as well as American involvement in Iraq...
...news of the incident broke, had also suggested he believed that air strikes would end. Speaking to reporters after a lengthy meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, he said: "I don't think there will be any more [air strikes]." In his meeting with Brown, Zardari had urged the British prime minister to persuade the Americans to refrain from further attacks on Pakistani soil. "The U.K. agrees with us that such moves are counterproductive," says the Zardari aide, who had been present at the meeting...