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From a May 23 commencement address delivered at Hofstra University by E. L. Doctorow. Doctorow’s assertion that Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction provoked the audience to such…

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In defiance of gravity

Chain of fools

Baghdad Year Zero

Tentacles of rage

Scale the production

House of Light III

The irresistible beauty of all things

You will never understand

If music and sweet poetry agree

Rag Time

This vote’s for you

House of the dead

Clucking points

Not necessarily the news

Rosignano Solvay, Sea 2

Exterminate the brutes

In cold blood

The FBI story

Untitled tower

Controlling the house

Waiting

If You Build It . . .

The fit and the dead

Harper’s index

Letters

Untitled

Findings

Foursomes

Appellation Texas contrÃ´lÃ©e

Flying up and flying down

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