Tuesday, August 3

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Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.

Monday, August 2

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Pat Robertson was 29 years old, possessionless, and living in a Bed-Stuy brownstone when he announced that God had told him to buy a fledgling TV station in Virginia. Here’s what happened next.

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When members of China’s massive bulletin-board forums perceive wrongdoing, they form a “human flesh search engine” and seek out real world vigilante justice.

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A Wisconsin basement gave birth to one of the most influential narratives of our times – Dungeons and Dragons – sending its creator, E. Gary Gygax, on a strange journey of his own.

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Why the U.S. Senate gets so little done.

Friday, July 30

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Jacob Riis, writing in 1899, on how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

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The Appleseed Project is ostensibly a traveling marksmanship school - but what else is it teaching?

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How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

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Selections from the leaked documents about the war in Afghanistan portray a military effort that is ineffective and frequently absurd. (Part of the NYT War Logs series.)

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The forgotten life of Eva Tanguay, perhaps America’s first rock star.

Thursday, July 29

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David Sedaris on smoking and quitting.

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How a dental equipment salesman from Germany named Klaus Teuber invented the perfect board game, Settlers of Catan.