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'Times' Explains What Sidekicks Are And Why Yours Will Be Stolen

The T-Mobile Sidekick has become a favorite target of muggers and thieves throughout New York and the nation. In response, the NYPD has decided to harass teenagers and New York Times blogger Sewell Chan has decided to explain what a "Sidekick" is: "The Sidekick — sometimes encrusted with Swarovski crystal — has been a popular accessory for celebrities like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. It has even made its way onto an album by the young rapper Soulja Boy Tell'em." (The link goes to Times music crit Kalefa Sannah's review of Soulja Boy's surprisingly longer than one track debut album, which does seem to indicate that that is the official Times stylebook-approved way to punctuate Mr. Tell'em's name.) [NYT]

4:19 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Pareene
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This is one of the most incomprehensible accounts of a fascinating story ever: So, says the Times, a guy in Texas shoots two guys robbing his neighbor. However! "A police report suggests [the robbers] may have been shot in the back." It... suggests that? And: "a plainclothes officer had pulled up just in time to see [the white neighbor] pointing his shotgun at both men across his front yard, that [one of the robbers] had at one point started to run in a way that took him closer to [the shooter], and that both men 'received gunfire from the rear.'" Leaving aside the entirely unfortunate quote about receiving things from the rear, whaa? Someone printed the phrase "started to run in a way that took him closer"? [NYT]

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