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Q&A with Lewis Lapham [Boston Globe]

Q&A with Lewis Lapham [Boston Globe]

[Boston Globe Ideas section, November 4, 2007]

MACHIAVELLI PREDICTED THE Blackwater debacle. The Qing dynasty’s homeland security …

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Apartment 138 (3/5)

Apartment 138 (3/5)
One star for serving Six Point Brownstone. One star for quaffable, cheap ($5) sauvignon blanc. And one star for re-serving, without comment …

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Union Market (2/5)

Union Market (2/5)
A Fairway retread without a reasonable price in sight. Crap bread but good cheese—and yet, barely a passing grade for this little …

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Here’s the way to say “I love you”: rarely….

Here’s the way to say “I love you”: rarely….
The Morning News – How to Say I Love You by Paul Ford

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Literary Death Match

[Written for the editors of New York Magazine’s Vulture (nymag.com/vulture)

Last Night’s Gig: Gloves-Optional Literary Death Match Crowns New Champ

http://www.jeffmacintyre.com/archives/2007/10/literary_death_match_unpublished.htm

(via :: jeffmacintyre.com

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Iconoclasts at heart, the best scientists are faced with an occupational hazard: having left their mark on one small patch of ground, they are tempted to stir up trouble elsewhere.

Iconoclasts at heart, the best scientists are faced with an occupational hazard: having left their mark on one small patch of ground, they are tempted …

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