Michael Wilson New York Times
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Star Wars: A 6-Year-Old Fan Sees the Big Picture and Awakens
My father took me to see Star Wars in a Buffalo movie theater in 1977, when I was 7. He had no idea what it was about. He didn't overthink it. Life was simpler then. That was the spirit, I thought - it was Jude's time. I looked at our humble television and thought of that mind-blowing night at the theater with my father
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Erased iPhone Gets a Mother in Trouble
Her crime began with two sentences she spoke to her son in phone calls: "What is your password?" and "We wiped your phone out."
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Lured into a trap, then tortured for being gay
He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture -- he was sodomized, burned and whipped.There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23...
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Leaving a job with a bus, not a slide
How thrilling the ride off the back of a jet and down that inflatable emergency slide must have been for Steven Slater, flight attendant -- cold beer in his hand, wind in his hair, the seat of his JetBlue uniform gliding merrily toward the runway. Woo-hoo! And yet, with his swift arrest at home later Monday, the whole caper has nothing on the infam...
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Star Wars: A 6-Year-Old Fan Sees the Big Picture and Awakens
My father took me to see Star Wars in a Buffalo movie theater in 1977, when I was 7. He had no idea what it was about. He didn't overthink it. Life was simpler then. That was the spirit, I thought - it was Jude's time. I looked at our humble television and thought of that mind-blowing night at the theater with my father
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Erased iPhone Gets a Mother in Trouble
Her crime began with two sentences she spoke to her son in phone calls: "What is your password?" and "We wiped your phone out."
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Lured into a trap, then tortured for being gay
He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture -- he was sodomized, burned and whipped.There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23...
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Leaving a job with a bus, not a slide
How thrilling the ride off the back of a jet and down that inflatable emergency slide must have been for Steven Slater, flight attendant -- cold beer in his hand, wind in his hair, the seat of his JetBlue uniform gliding merrily toward the runway. Woo-hoo! And yet, with his swift arrest at home later Monday, the whole caper has nothing on the infam...
