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A Rape in Cyberspace
By Julian Dibbell — The Village Voice, 1993 A Rape in Cyberspace (Or TINYSOCIETY, and How to Make One) Chapter One of Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life, 1998. (First published in somewhat different form in The Village Voice, December 1993.) They say he raped them that night. They say he did it with a cunning…
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Song of the Sausage Creature
By Hunter S. Thompson — Cycle World, 1995 SONG OF THE SAUSAGE CREATURE HUNTER S. THOMPSON Dr. Thompson puts the Ducati 900SP to the ultimate test&3×2014;the Test of Naked Truth—on the strange and dangerous blacktop of the Real World THERE ARE SOME THINGS NOBODY NEEDS IN THIS world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp speed 900cc…
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Wall Street on the Tundra
By Michael Lewis — Vanity Fair, 2009 Just after October 6, 2008, when Iceland effectively went bust, I spoke to a man at the International Monetary Fund who had been flown in to Reykjavík to determine if money might responsibly be lent to such a spectacularly bankrupt nation. He’d never been to Iceland, knew nothing…
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The Medals of His Defeats
By Christopher Hitchens — The Atlantic, 2002 Contents | April 2002 In This Issue (Contributors) More on books from The Atlantic Monthly. From the archives: “Was the Great War Necessary?” (May 1999) A young historian argues iconoclastically that Britain’s entry into the First World War, in 1914, was “the greatest error of modern history,” born…