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Flashbacks: Some final thoughts on the late Louise Day Hicks, Hubba Hubba's Bondage Barbie, and the twisted history of Emerson College's haunted dorm

 

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Jayson Blair revisited, Radiohead’s least favorite Radiohead song, and notes on the plight of the tenant-musician

BAD TIMES 5 years ago May 16, 2003 | Dan Kennedy called for “tougher standards” in journalism in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal. “Yet by purging Blair, it would be wrong to think that all is now well at the Times , or in journalism. Tougher standards...

Flashbacks: how Al Gore’s favorite book hurt his campaign chances, animal testing controversy, and the mad, mad world of Miss Baby America pageants

PLAYING FAVORITES 5 years ago April 25, 2003 | Brent Kendall analyzed how a presidential candidate’s declared “favorite book” can affect his campaign chances. “The 2000 election demonstrated precisely how candidates' book choices play right into the...

VIDEO: The Wire's David Simon at Harvard

With The Wire 's fifth and final season in the can -- we'd talk more about it, except that a couple of our slacking staffers are still plowing through seasons one through four -- creator/mastermind David Simon stopped by Harvard to accept we're...