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Archive: 2010

Boston Brahmin

From a list of 137 optional forms of address included on a survey sent to Harvard University alumni asking them to indicate their “preferred address” for the 2010 Harvard Alumni…

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Spare the Rod

From an October 14 ruling of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, in Regina v. D.J.W. The accused, whose identity was concealed to protect his son, was found guilty of…

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On the Shoulders of Giants

From a February 2, 1985, interview with Jorge Luis Borges, by Argentine poet and essayist Héctor Alvarez Castillo, included in Camino a Babel, self-published by Alvarez Castillo last year. Translated…

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Tough Luqman

From an October 27 federal criminal complaint against Luqman Ameen Abdullah and ten other alleged members of Ummah, a radical Islamic separatist group based in Detroit. On October 28, after…

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A Vision of Now

By Hayden Carruth, from “The Beginning of the End,” a sequence of poems published posthumously in the Fall 2009 issue of The Sewanee Review. Carruth’s “Notes on Emphysema” appeared in…

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The Wisdom of Rats

From “Contested Ground,” which appeared in the November/December 2009 issue of Orion. Trinity, a collaboration between Bowden and photographer Michael P. Berman, was published last October by University of Texas…

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Up from Globalism

For decades, America’s economics and business elites have been confidently assuring their countrymen that the alarming decline of the U.S. manufacturing sector was nothing to worry about. Dying industries and…

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Letters

Everything’s Fine Christopher R. Beha’s recent article on Brandeis University [“Voodoo Academics,” Annotation, November 2009] presents a profoundly unfair portrait of the university. Beha accuses Brandeis of “growth for growth’s…

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