Like any number of other decidedly ordinary men, Larry spent his weekdays toiling in a six-foot by six-foot cubed space, his blandly carpeted corporate cut-out defined by three identically-sized particle-board walls, each littered with sticky notes whose scribbled messages he never revisited—the whole of his working world punctuated by the perpetual hum of a bank of fluorescent rack lights.  On most days, Larry would make phone calls, or take phone

Those of you who like to taste your news—to get a feel for it, to luxuriate in its odors—will genuinely appreciate this intimate account of time spent in Ward Churchill’s bailiwick by the Weekly Standard‘s Matt Labash.  From “The Ward Churchill Notoriety Tour”: […] I step out into Sproul Plaza, where Mario Savio launched the Free Speech Movement in 1964. I head toward the GAP, which now sits adjacent to

Reuters: The female U.S. reservist soldier who posed before naked Iraqi prisoners as they were being abused at Abu Ghraib will plead guilty to seven of nine charges against her, her lawyer said on Friday. Lynndie England, 22, became the face of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal after photos of her posing before humiliated Iraqi prisoners were published last year. One showed her holding an Iraqi detainee on a leash.