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Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

A Teen Spirit?

The following letter was sent in August to the editor of Seventeen magazine by Jason Hodgson, a twelve-year-old who lives in Manassas, Virginia. Dear Seventeen, In your July issue you…

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John Candy’s Biggest Fan Says Farewell

From “A Final Farewell: A Personal Meeting with John Candy,” by Lyle, in the June/July issue of Big-Ad, a magazine “for full-framed men,” published in San Francisco. Friday, March 4,…

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The G.O.P. Pulls Out the Big Guns

From a “Resolution of Condemnation” sent by David A. Norcross, general counsel to the Republican National Committee, to thirty-eight Republican members of Congress on August 10, the day before a…

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