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Arts & Letters Daily (08 Sep 2010)
Some cities are lucky enough to be able to worry about smart growth. In Detroit or Flint, the question is whether there are any strategies for smart shrinkage... more
We cannot create our own values, or pick and choose the rootstock from which our fragile moral feelings have sprung. We rely still on God... more
Women - beheaded, burned to death, stoned, stabbed, electrocuted, strangled and buried alive - for the honor of their families. It's barbaric and shameful, says Robert Fisk... part 1 ... part 2
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Arts & Letters Daily (07 Sep 2010)
Sean Wilentz's move from hard-left labor historian to defender of traditional, some might say conservative, political history seems an odd turn... more
Graham Greene's fearless travels in west Africa made his reputation as a literary explorer. But were his intrepid cousin, Barbara Greene, not at his side... more
"Thoughts are magnetic," says Rhonda Byrne, "and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency." Money must be on the same frequency... more
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Arts & Letters Daily (06 Sep 2010)
Dr. David Kelly was 59 when he was found dead in woods near his Oxfordshire home in 2003. Was it merely suicide, or a darker conspiracy?... more
As humans domesticated cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, cats and dogs, they at the same time domesticated themselves: we made ourselves human... more
Lady Chatterly produced a literary show trial, with scholars forced to overpraise a rather bad novel. They can be thankful there hasn't been another such spectacle since... more
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Written by Corrie Sloot
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Sunday, 12 August 2007 |
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| Bart: You know, I've done a lot of bad stuff through the years. I guess now I'm paying the price. But there's so many things I'll never get a chance to do: smoke a cigarette, use a fake ID, shave a swear word in my hair.
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