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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK They Don’t Know When They’re Licked In 1894 San Francisco dedicated an elaborate monument to the history of California, a vast pile of granite and bronze paid for...
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Bay Urea
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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CASUAL Bay Urea I was recently in San Francisco on business. I was there on business because, well, I would never go there for pleasure. That’s right, I don’t like San Francisco. When...
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Editorials
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EDITORIALS Let’s Have a Real Gun Debate ‘Over the years,” wrote the editors of the New York Times, “the gun lobby, claiming to defend the convenience of hunters and other gun owners,...
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No Easy Way Out
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GERECHT, REUEL MARC
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By October 15, Donald Trump must decide what to do with his predecessor’s nuclear agreement with Iran. He has felt obliged, against his instincts, to recertify the deal every 90...
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Benghazi at the Bar
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Lifhits, Jenna
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‘I want them to hate him,” a federal prosecutor said quietly on the evening of October 2 as his colleagues packed up. It had been a long first day in the trial of Ahmed Abu...
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Catalanguish
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Caldwell, Christopher
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The Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos, who in the 1970s won the Panama Canal back for his country, used to tell less successful Latin American leaders that the United...
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Killer Celebrities
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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Before Jack Henry Abbott, there was Edgar Smith. Abbott was a Utah forger, bank robber, and killer whose series of essay-letters to Norman Mailer about prison life...
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The Man Who Would Be Kempton
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Fergrguson, Andrew
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When George Will was being packed off to graduate school, his father, a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois, asked him what, or who, he wanted to be in life: Ted Sorensen, Isaiah...
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Sense and License
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RHOADS, STEVEN E.
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In the 1970s, about 10 percent of American workers required licenses to perform their jobs legally. By 2015, that proportion had more than doubled to 22 percent. There is widespread agreement among...
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Getting to No
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.; Warrrren, Michael
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Getting to No The art of decertifying the Iran deal By Stephen F. Hayes
& Michael Warren Donald Trump was frustrated. Five days earlier, on July 12, 2017, the president had...
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Can This State Be Saved?
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Lloyd, Alice B.
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Can This State Be Saved? Connecticut has dug itself into a deep economic hole;
David Walker senses political opportunity for an accountant. Sherman, Conn. The annual...
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After Netanyahu
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Rogachevsky, Neil
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After Netanyahu He won’t be Israel’s prime minister forever With police intensifying their long-running corruption probes, Israel is awash with speculation that Benjamin...
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What Are Libraries For?
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Markatos, Tim
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Books&Arts What Are Libraries For? Balancing the needs of scholars and the public
inside a storied New York institution. by Tim Markatos As I was leaving the theater...
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Norma-tivity
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Gallagher, Nicholas M.
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& A B Norma-tivity
The Met’s season opener raises questions about
civilization and relativism. by Nicholas M. Gallagher What does it do to casually...
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The Agony of Writing
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Heitman, Danny
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& A B The Agony of Writing
Master stylist John McPhee on his craft.
by Danny Heitman In recent years, John McPhee’s writing has become more retrospective, a natural sensibility for a...
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Getting Things Moving
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GARDNER, JAMES
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& A B Getting Things Moving
The childlike joy of Alexander Calder.
by James Gardner In the past 100 years, no visual artist has contributed more to the sum total of human happiness...
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Parody
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& A B Whole New Ballgame
The drama and fun of America’s pastime
in the post-steroid era. by Tom Perrotta This summer, the Cleveland Indians won 22 consecutive baseball...
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46 Replicants' Return
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Replicants’ Return Why Blade Runner lasted—and its sequel won’t. by John Podhoretz Can there be such a thing as a great movie that is also unsatisfying? It would seem like a contradiction...
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Vol. 023 Issue 007 (October 23 2017)
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Vol. 023 Issue 008 (October 30 2017)
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