With a suspected serial killer dumping bodies near Long Island’s Ocean Parkway, the New York Times rounds up a personality profile based on interviews with experts. Among the guesses: It’s a white man in his mid-20s to mid-40s who is either married or has a girlfriend. He’s smart and articulate,…
Continue reading …Morgan Spurlock, the guy behind Super Size Me , calls his latest documentary—an exploration of our ad-obsessed culture— The Greatest Movie Ever Sold . And critics seem to agree: Spurlock “has this habit of making documentaries that come hidden in the Trojan horse of silly and then stab at your conscience,…
Continue reading …Pakistan’s supreme court has freed 13 of the 14 people accused of raping Mukhtar Mai, the activist who earned global acclaim for speaking out about her assault, a rare act in Pakistan’s sexist society. Human rights groups are outraged, and Mai says she’s terrified. “I am scared these 13 people…
Continue reading …Charles Krauthammer surveys the GOP’s 2012 field and lays down his current odds, with Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty the frontrunners to be nominee at 5-1. He says this is “analysis, not advocacy,” but ends with a glowing nod to Paul Ryan, who he thinks could emerge this summer as…
Continue reading …Month after month, as her baby bump grew, fellow high schoolers talked behind Gaby Rodriguez’s back—until they found out she’d never been pregnant at all. Instead, the 17-year-old faked a pregnancy, complete with a wire-and-cotton belly, as a social experiment at her school in Washington, the Yakima Herald-Republic reports….
Continue reading …Author Sebastian Junger pays tribute to his friend and Restrepo co-director Tim Hetherington—one of the photojournalists killed in Libya this week—in a Vanity Fair essay. “You had a very specific vision for your work and for your life, and that vision included your death,” Junger writes. “It didn’t…
Continue reading …Syrian security forces fired tear gas and live bullets into crowds of protesters at rallies across the country today. At least 27 people were killed, according to human rights groups, and witnesses tell the AP that one of them was an 11-year-old boy. The state-run news agency reports that officers…
Continue reading …Pope Benedict XVI marked Good Friday by holding his first-ever televised question-and-answer session. “In His Image” aimed to update the Catholic Church’s image as the pope offered prerecorded responses to questions from around the world. Among the seven questioners was a 7-year-old in Japan, who asked why her country faced…
Continue reading …Charlie Sheen stirred up another controversy while in Washington, DC, on Tuesday night: He somehow managed to snag a police escort so he could book it at 80mph to his show, for which he was running almost an hour late. The Washington Post looks into the matter, but no one…
Continue reading …At least 24 Filipinos celebrated Good Friday in an incredibly painful fashion today, by voluntarily having people dressed as Roman soldiers drive four-inch stainless-steal nails through their palms, and then hoisting them into the midday sun. Such ritual crucifixions are a tradition in the country, and the largest of them…
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