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Boston’s Chinatown: Not Just Red Lanterns [by Eleanor Goodman]
If you’ve spent any time in China, it’s easy to slam the Chinatowns of America. They’re just a lot of red lanterns and restaurants with Americanized Chinese food. Yeah, there are Chinese people around,…
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Here’s one for you . . .
Think of a seven letter word that will make sense in the first blank. Switch the letters around to find the words that make sense in the remaining four blanks: His fortune was _…
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On the Subway Platform by John Brehm
—for Kate Where are you going I saidand she said I’m going to look for a bookand I said what kind of book? A book onPERFECTIONISM she said and I saidmake sure you…
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Who said It? And do you agree?
<<<Whenever peace — conceived as the avoidance of war — has been the primary objective of a power or a group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most…
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Quote of the Day – Rex Stout
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective stories until there were democracies, because the very foundation of…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: Tastes Like Capitulation
Sitting in a bar with a guy’s guy, a man so manly he not only writes crime novels, but also solves actual crimes, I lost control of the debate and joined him in ordering…
