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From “The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear,” by Jonathan Lethem From “The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear,” in the October 2009 Harper’s Magazine. I do not think I shall visit…

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McKenzie Funk with AIG’s Private Firefighting Brigade From “Too Big to Burn: AIG plays God in a man-made firestorm,” in the October 2009 Harper’s Magazine. PRIVATEERS The first light we…

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Richard Rodriguez on the Twilight of the American Newspaper From “Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper,” in the November 2009 Harper’s Magazine. A scholar I know, a woman who…

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Luke Mitchell on Obamacare From “Understanding Obamacare,” in the December 2009 Harper’s Magazine The idea that there is a competitive “private sector” in America is appealing, but generally false. No…

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Andrew J. Bacevich on the War We Can’t Win From “The War We Can’t Win,” in the November 2009 Harper’s Magazine History deals rudely with the pretensions of those who…

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I have no doubt you are sexually hip, but just in case you’re not, please know that “teabag” has a particular meaning in certain circles. In order to have a…

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From “Findings” From “Findings,” in the November 2009 Harper’s Magazine Among highly sociable stingless Brazilian bees, a quarter of males—who can develop from unfertilized eggs—were found to be the sons…

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Petra Bartosiewicz on the American “Intelligence Factory” From “The Intelligence Factory: How America makes its enemies disappear,” in the November 2009 Harper’s Magazine When I first read the U.S. government’s…

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The body never lies. In its collusion with the truth, it avoids eye contact, limits movement of arms and hands. The liar is not likely to touch her chest, but…

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I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the…

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This Thanksgiving, more than ever, I am deeply grateful for the large, strong, loving heart of the average American. That heart beats within those who love this country enough to…

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Jewish Metal is something that has always been a part of me. The first album I ever bought was Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry, a schmaltzy collection of hard rock from…

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For a year in the early 80s, [Mavis Gallant] was writer in residence at Toronto University, “a completely useless job. You are with people who have no talent whatever, and…

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I recently reorganised the books in my study, and collected my remnants of feminist theory on a separate shelf; a fragment of another world. There were copies of Feminist Review,…

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As a devoted football fan, you are undoubtedly aware of the phrase “not in my house,” a defiant cri de coeur that is generally shouted by a swaggering defensive end…

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“Maybe this is too personal,” says Charlotte, “but I wasn’t as careful with my virginity, with my heart and my body, when I was a teenager, and maybe that’s where…

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Over the past few years the U.S. military has been engaged in an extensive internal debate about counter-insurgency warfare. This is partly a debate about COIN tactics and techniques —…

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But China– or Mao’s China, which was the only one on view to Westerners in 1974 – was entirely opaque to him, a string of stereotypes, or bricks, as he…

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The inspiration for the name [Blue Dog] comes from several sources. It’s a play on the old phrase “Yellow Dog Democrat”—for those who’d sooner vote for a yellow dog than…

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It’s so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment that I like to call “shitasmia.” It not only creates this emotion: it…

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SPIEGEL: Why do we waste so much time trying to complete things that can’t be realistically completed? ECO: We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why…

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Hacks’s politics were hard to ignore. Bertolt Brecht advised him not to move to East Germany in the early nineteen-fifties…but Hacks moved anyway. And although his plays got him in…

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By the 1970s, a Soviet math establishment had taken shape. A totalitarian system within a totalitarian system, it provided its members not only with work and money but also with…

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I was neither dazzled nor drugged into sex when I was 14 – I was embarrassed into it. I was walking along the street, one Friday morning, on my way…

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“If you build a bridge to nowhere, that might be a bridge that you’re going to use that I’m not going to use,” said Ed Pound, spokesman for the government…

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Proponents of the wand often argue that errors stem from the human operator, who they say must be rested, with a steady pulse and body temperature, before using the device.…

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For all its no-nonsense masculinity, Hawksian cinema has always been very stylized. His array of adventures make their stoical gestures in an enclosed world where such gestures are sufficient unto…

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What is claimed is: 1. A method of producing an advertisement with thematic content from a television program, comprising: incorporating thematic content comprising a plot advancing element of a television…

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