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Images and encounters frozen in the Arctic
Of snow and shortages, dread and metaphor
Revisiting a city once again in history's straits
Why I don't live where I used to live
Inside a residence for the homeless with AIDS
A woman’s taste for pornography
Making it to Mepkin Abbey
On the burdens, and privileges, facing my multi-racial son
The things we continue to hold in common
A Midwestern boyhood
The tug of the outstretched hand, day after day
The P.C. undergrad is a useful specter
Sri Lanka’s civil war has political, not historical, roots
How great songs name us
A new U.S. immigration policy opens doors for the world's wealthiest
Columbus’s legacy: A world made mestizo
Of hounds, horses, and Jeffersonian happiness
Hurricanes spell doom for coastal development
Tuning in to The Gary Byrd Show
Summer, with cows, on the alpage
A troubled bank puts it all on the card and on cardholders
Making one's way, again, through Vietnam
How local phone companies touch you for more
On losing, by degrees, one's father
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