When Hank Battle rolled up at the upper-crust Pine Crest School in January, nobody knew what had hit them. My first dalliance with anonymous sources. Plus: recent graduates go on the record about participating in Hank Battle’s secretive—and feared—group of student advisors.
Feature: Losing Battle
Posted by Stefan on July 20, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/07/20/feature-losing-battle/
Sayonara
Outside, the stars had darkened and it had started to drizzle, so the prospect of a nightcap was pleasing, especially if I should have to return on foot to my own hotel, which was a mile distant from the Miyako. I poured some vodka; Brando declined to join me. However, he subsequently reached for my [...]
Posted by Stefan on July 12, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/07/12/sayonara/
Feature: My Father’s Bones
Plus: more about the “confession” that a jury may never get to see.
Posted by Stefan on June 22, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/06/22/feature-my-fathers-bones/
Story on the Daily Kos
Here’s the link—up to 4,000 Facebook shares and counting as of this writing.
Posted by Stefan on June 12, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/06/12/story-on-the-daily-kos/
Headaches, Part II
From a taped statement of a police interview. Goodness, it’s like Lorca meets Beckett. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: (Unintelligible) your mother (unintelligible). A: Who? Q: We—we can (unintelligible). UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: (Unintelligible). Q: Stop and take a breath. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: All right. A: (Unintelligible). UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SPEAKER: (Unintelligible) that. A: (Unintelligible) you want. (Unintelligible) you [...]
Posted by Stefan on May 6, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/05/06/headaches-part-ii/
So Close and Still So Far
Some of the best pictures you’ll see of North Korea—taken from across international borders.
Posted by Stefan on May 4, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/05/04/so-close-and-still-so-far/
Trump’s Potemkin Village
A brief and surreal visit to the Trump Hollywood. The view from the picture widows is so gorgeous that at first, it’s all you notice. The sprawling condominium — white floors, white walls, white ceiling — opens in a glass rectangle over a white balcony that frames the ocean and sky, two strips of rippled [...]
Posted by Stefan on May 4, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/05/04/trumps-potemkin-village/
Headaches
Well past my tenth hour of reading through discovery materials and depositions in the State Attorney’s Office. And lo, this gem: Q: Okay. Now, at that point, does he go into describe to you what the plan was for what was going to happen next or? A: I don’t know if he told me at [...]
Posted by Stefan on May 4, 2011
http://kam.ph/2011/05/04/headache/