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...firmly in the middle of desi culture, despite his mother's insistence that he speak English at home instead of Urdu or his father's ancestral Sindhi. "At Cambridge I did a social sciences degree, and when it came time for my dissertation, I said I wanted to write about rudeboys. Suddenly there was this whole phenomenon in the early 1990s of young men who'd had enough of pandering to the system. They wanted to go create their own society and not hang out with white kids anymore." To his surprise, the topic was approved, and he spent months...
...Tried participatory journalism. Put the I in Crimson sports. Plimp’ed my write...
...Daou didn't actually make any specific claims as to the comedic value of Colbert's speech, though if he were aiming to write something that would make Saturday night's entertainment funny by comparison, he certainly succeeded. Daou also succeeded at throwing down a bloggy gauntlet, and numerous other commentators took it upon themselves not only to deride the mainstream media for "ignoring" Colbert (true, aside from coverage in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and all the major wire services) but to argue that the relatively lackluster response Colbert received from his live audience was somehow empirically...
...funny, but the fact of the poll's existence sure is. Talk about the politicization of comedy. Next we'll get focus groups and image consultants ("Those clown shoes need to be three inches longer if you want to bring in the soccer moms") and Joe Klein will write a book about how no one does improv anymore...
...Moussaoui, 37, will likely be held in the most restrictive part of the prison, sleeping on a thin, green mattress that rests on an unforgiving concrete bed. He can sit on a concrete stool at a concrete desk to write letters and read books. Above him at all times will be a video camera monitoring his every move. If he is well behaved, he could eventually be allowed to have a black-and-white television in his cell that plays, on closed circuit, religious programs, psychological help tapes or educational shows. His toilet can flush only a certain number...