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January 2009

Dos Caminos (3/5) on Yelp.com

Dos Caminos (3/5) on Yelp.com
Interesting menu and preparations but the execution seems miles from the accomplished dishes at Rosa Mexicano.…

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Savoia (2/5) on Yelp.com

Savoia (2/5) on Yelp.com
Welcome to the home of the pariah pie: probably the most noncompliant Brooklyn pizza we’ve tasted, which is worth a point …

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Lowe’s (1/5) on Yelp.com

Lowe’s (1/5) on Yelp.com
Soul-killing.…

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Char No. 4 (2/5) on Yelp.com

Char No. 4 (2/5) on Yelp.com
A 2/3-star split, this place has been a press darling in recent months, but why? It seems to resemble …

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Few would deny that the likes of Aristotle, Cervantes and Shakespeare are central figures in the western canon. But what, exactly, do we mean when we speak of literary greatness? The very notion is enshrouded in a kind of hoary mysticism. The Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote of “the best that has been thought and known in the world,” but that only takes us so far. There is a cloudy, if universal agreement – a convenient fiction, really – that such an elevated category exists, but there are not, and never will be, fixed criteria for determining those books that are entitled to the sobriquet “great”.

Few would deny that the likes of Aristotle, Cervantes and Shakespeare are central figures in the western canon. But what, exactly, do we mean when …

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I had no idea Plato spent so much time on the road.

I had no idea Plato spent so much time on the road.
Plato Was a Backpacker – Features – World Hum…

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Even record label EMI didn’t escape Lily’s wrath – as she talked candidly about her earnings. She added: “I got £50,000 for my first album and I sold a lot of records. “Twenty years ago, I’d have been booked in at the Ritz with five grams of cocaine on my table and 10 bunches of flowers. Some new clothes. A chauffeur on 24-hour call. “Now I’m lucky to get an Oyster card. I ask for a hotel in Paris and I get a two-star place in the eighth arrondissement on my own. “I’m like: ‘Do you want me to get raped and killed?’

Even record label EMI didn’t escape Lily’s wrath – as she talked candidly about her earnings. She added: “I got £50,000 for my first album …

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In The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr argued that search engines are making us stupid and that a decade of hyperlink hopping was “chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” Caleb Crain pushed the debate in a different direction on his blog Steamboats are Ruining Everything, noting, “Reading online does not seem to me to be a pleasure in itself but a response to irritation. That is, it is not like eating an ice cream cone; it is like scratching an itch.

In The Atlantic, Nicholas Carr argued that search engines are making us stupid and that a decade of hyperlink hopping was “chipping away my capacity …

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