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...drafted civil soldiers returned to work, investigators raced to protect them from more enemies they can't see. Late last week a fragile consensus was emerging among intelligence sources that the culprit is likely a lone scientist in our midst, someone who has no connection to Osama bin Laden--except for a shared talent for terrifying Americans...
Joti Rockwell and Hubbard, two self-described “guys with acoustic guitars and bad hair,” could easily be written off as just another duo who picked up their guitars in college to woo girls—except that they’re not. Lifelong friends, the 20-somethings have been writing music and performing since they were six, graduating in 1997 from Princeton (Hubbard) and Haverford (Rockwell). Their stood-the-test-of-time friendship was apparent in their on-stage banter during the Passim show...
...city councillors have signed on as plaintiffs, except for Timothy P. Toomey, Jr., who also serves as a state representative. Saundra Graham, who said she was “the first minority to represent the seat” of the 28th district, has also joined the suit...
Every member of The Loop desperately wants the Yankees to lose the World Series, except for Scott, who has begun openly cheering for them. Scott’s realized that every team he’s rooted for in the World Series during the last decade and a half has lost, and he’s decided to take the Yankees down in his own special way. He has taken to writing poems about the Yankees to express his newfound “affection.” (“The Yankees fight for freedom/ And thus, they always...
...World Series represents everything wrong with baseball, the bird episode shows us so much that’s right—except, I guess, for the violent death part. It’s history. It’s inane chatter that makes bleacher and upper deck tickets the best seats in the house—always. It’s spinning yarns about the weird and the wacky, about the crazy thing that happened “that one time” when the secure boundaries set up by the rules of sport were bent and twisted by the unexpected...