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20th century

You can get it if you really want

If racism is such a crushing burden on blacks, why have the West Indians done so well?

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Diary of a freeloader

Feeding the hand that bites you

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Lawn order

Call in the high-tech horticulturists, or it's all over for your grass

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Reagan’s industrial tonic

Does anyone around here believe in capitalism?

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Writes of passage

The letter of recommendation as a social force and literary genre

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Tales of the Vienna airport

The difference between a refugee from oppression and an illegal alien is . . . well, it's hard to say

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May 1982

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