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Archive: 2012

The great communicator

Revelations from Ronald Reagan's FBI file

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Fifty shades of gray

Mitt Romney as bad fiction

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The Changeling

The content of Obama's character

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Regime Changes

From emails sent last year, purportedly to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, by Lamis Omar, a Ph.D. student working as his translator. The emails were among hundreds recovered by WikiLeaks and…

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Chore List of Champions

From a January 26, 1947, contract between Kurt Vonnegut and his pregnant wife, Jane, to whom he had been married for sixteen months. Kurt Vonnegut: Letters, edited by Dan Wakefield,…

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Compromising Positions

Let us review. Barack Obama, who was lifted to the presidency four years ago on a great wave of progressive fantasy, likes to say that the national budget is like…

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Findings

Studies suggested that the elderly overestimate their driving abilities, possess a distinctive smell whose disagreeable properties do not originate in the underarms, and sometimes die of loneliness. Following research that…

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Boy genius

The eternally youthful Nicholson Baker

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