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Ruminating on farmers, kingpins, and squash
Glimmers of understanding
Serving human purposes
Misreading the Iranian Revolution
Six cents for lost prestige
Beard's bestiary
What is lost to pseudoculture
The friends oil buys
And literary wilt
Depressed Israelis, cynical Egyptians
A gift for giving
The teachings of Vietnam
The armies of the earth asleep
What's what
Making way for the omnivores
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