June 2011
May 2011
“Some read the “The Weekly Bangla Patrika,” a Bangladeshi newspaper that, alongside images of Will and Kate’s wedding, printed a photograph allegedly of the dead Osama bin Laden after he was killed. The headline: “The War Is Not Against Islam.” On the back page of the same issue was a blurb about a Bangladeshi cabdriver who drove two passengers 2,800 miles from New York to Los Angeles for $5,000. In the basement, room has been made for prayer mats among boxes of potato chips and Snapple.”
—Paul Hiebert on Mott Corner, where NYC’s Bangladeshi cabbies go to eat, unwind and have a taste of home.
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The final scoreboard will say Jim Tressel was a dirty coach, and maybe he was. When the drumbeat of a widening investigation chases a coach out of a job where he won seven Big Ten championships, a national title and 83 percent of his games, it is the natural and perhaps only judgment for history to render.
But what brought down Tressel yesterday, what finally dislodged a highly successful coach from one of the top-five college sports jobs in America, was mostly a crime of omission. And with the see-no-evil culture of Ohio State’s football operation now a massive story still rolling downhill, he’s probably only the first to go.
” —Sports columnist Dan Wolken. (“Nowhere to Hide,” via The Daily)
“I don’t think people understand that these National Guard units that are being deployed, they have jobs at home, and they have families that are not necessarily military families. Camden’s not a very large town, and when a unit like this goes, it’s very hard. War is hell on the home front, too.”
—Theresa Perry, whose 26-year-old son, Jake, will ship out with the National Guard next year for his third deployment. She lives in Camden, Arkansas, which has already lost 3 young men to America’s decade of war. [“Heavy Toll On One Town,” via The Daily]
“Maybe it’s true that 30 is the new 20, and 20somethings these days are still living out their teen angst. Maybe it’s Heather [Cocks] and Jessica [Morgan]’s lack of condescension, or our reality TV-fueled addiction to the kind of dramatic treasure trove that’s only unearthed in young adult and romance genres, but “Spoiled” is as easily read as a razor-sharp comedy about Hollywood’s over-important youth culture as it is as a big hug for teens with peer problems.”
—Emma Barker talks to fashion’s sassiest bloggers, the Fug Girls, about embracing a younger audience. [“The Y.A. Sisterhood,” via The Daily]
