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  • Tales of the Seventies: The Screaming Poet and the Wrestling Shrink [by Alan Ziegler]

    February 12, 2015

        Winter, 1971-72. My early days trying to be a poet. I am living with my parents and working the lobster shift—usually by myself—on the decollating machine at the Consolidated Computer Company on…

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  • What Has Happened to “The New Republic”

    February 11, 2015

    From The New Republic (February 2015) — first issue since the putsch that cleared out the editorial offices: <<< Judged purely aesthetically, the monuments of Paris looked far better with Nazi flags flying from…

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  • What Has Happened to “The New Republic”

    February 11, 2015

    From The New Republic (February 2015) — first issue since the putsch that cleared out the editorial offices: <<< Judged purely aesthetically, the monuments of Paris looked far better with Nazi flags flying from…

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  • Dean Delivered [by Catherine Woodard]

    February 11, 2015

      Michael Jordan with Coach Dean Smith The obituaries of legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith have heralded his civil rights activism and team-above-self philosophy as much as his basketball legacy. President…

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  • Dean Delivered [by Catherine Woodard]

    February 11, 2015

      Michael Jordan with Coach Dean Smith The obituaries of legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith have heralded his civil rights activism and team-above-self philosophy as much as his basketball legacy. President…

    Continue reading…

  • The First Class with Paul Violi [by Alexandra Bennett]

    February 10, 2015

    Is it possible to know someone you’ve never met, someone who has been completely invisible to you in the flesh but has marked your life in an indelible way? This is my question in…

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