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Good intentions

The relentless rise of Anne Wexler

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Politics

First, forget the issues

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Lotto baloney

You're seven times more likely to be killed by lightning than to win a million in the state lottery

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Rest in pieces

Life was a feast. Now, how to dispose of the leftovers?

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Say it ain’t so, Bjorn

The rotten world of professional tennis

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The trouble with unions

Confronting the Democrats' biggest dilemma

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Appetites

The birth of pronation

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Who killed Winter Kills?

The case of the vanishing movie involving a murder, a forty-year drug sentence, Liz Taylor's repossessed fur coat, and possible skulduggery at the highest levels. The author of a satirical fantasy reflects on life imitating art

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1983

The last days of ETS

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Schooling

Principals in action

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Appetites

Lunacy and the arrangement of books

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Americans in limbo

They're not the "new poor"--yet--but they're losing their grip on the middle class. Downward mobility--the most important sociological development of the 1980s.

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Barney Frank’s mother and 500 postmen

Great moments from TV commercials of the 1982 political campaign

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