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...doing my best to keep up with a tournament whose import and fan base lies almost exclusively in the United States. I’ve watched a few blurry games on a laptop prone to freezing due to a consistently interrupted feed. I’ve squinted at 14-inch televisions streaming an internet broadcast of five multi-colored blobs morphing up the court without regard for who is whom and whether the ball (a blurry orange sphere resembling the old “ball on fire” trick that made the antiquated “NBA Jams?...
...were trying to remove grime from his already clean skin. He's flanked by two relatives - his wife and younger brother, who has just rested a large black wooden framed photo of their late father on an empty chair. All three family members gaze at a 60-inch flat screen four feet in front of them. In a few minutes, the brothers will meet their half-sister and nephew for the first time ever - or more accurately, lay eyes on and speak to their kin in North Korea for the first time, via a fiber optic video cable, installed...
...Drexler has one. He has rebranded J. Crew as a store that sells basics like tank tops and Capris but also dares to inch up the food chain of craftsmanship (think cashmere sweaters), avoiding the race to the bottom by refusing to woo price-conscious consumers and sell ever cheaper clothes made with ever cheaper labor--a trend driven by discounters like Wal-Mart and Kohl's that has rippled to specialty shops. He has also taken away the fashion-by-engineering ethic that made J. Crew predictably boring...
...tired of working in a ten-inch square region of desk because the narcoleptic beside you is sprawled over the entire table sleeping? Seethe no more at those inconsiderate, space-wasting souls—instead, get even: 1. Drag him to the stacks and arrange a rendezvous for him on BoredatLamont.com...
...landau were a pair of rich ladies dressed for a party, each smiling and holding a tiny candle out the windows of the carriage. Piled in the wagon were dozens of street carcasses--mostly dogs, some rats and cats, a couple of pigs, the whole heap covered in an inch of lime, which sifted out between the boards as the wagon rolled, leaving a fuzzy trail of white on the pavement...