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May 2, 2013Her last campaign--something on the order of "She's the greatest actress we have, but she hasn't won in 29 years"--worked wonders on voters' guilt, and Meryl went home with the golden man for The Iron Lady.
Well, the very same idea needs to be trotted out again, but on a slightly smaller scale.
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March 28, 2013In 1992, literary badass Aleksandar Hemon left his native Sarajevo for a cultural exchange program in Chicago. He expected to stay abroad for only a few months. And, well, plans changed. The siege on Sarajevo, which lasted 43 months and produced the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II, beg ... More >>
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January 18, 2012Good luck using Wikipedia today. The user-generated, free-to-use, ad-free encyclopedia's English language portal will be dark for all of January 18th, as Wikipedia protests SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (the Protect IP Act).
As Wikipedia says on their site today if you want to ... More >>
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May 25, 2011In all of our robots-take-over-the-world fantasies, there's usually one last conversation between "us" and "them." The robots always speak English, of course! But what if the robots didn't speak English at all? What if robots had a language of their own composed of bleeps and bloops? Scenes o ... More >>
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March 24, 2011If you spend any time on the Internet -- no matter your age -- you should know what
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June 1, 2010Doesn't Everybody Do It In Paris?
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March 11, 2010If you want to run for an office that you actually have a shot at winning, here's you chance: Tomorrow's the deadline to file your candidate application for a seat on either the Citywide Council for English Language Learners or the Citywide Council on Special Education in your district. To ... More >>
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April 15, 2008And boycott Absolut for caving like craven Swedes!
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April 1, 2008A conversation with Hong Kong’s hottest director
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February 19, 2008But there are still plenty of reasons that they head north
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January 23, 2007MTC's revival of Friel's Translations offers tragic clarity, but no catharsis
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January 2, 2007Immigrant families try to wade through the school system bureaucracy
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September 6, 2005Fifty years after that triple trip of the tongue, Nabokov's nymphet is as mesmerizing as ever
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April 5, 2005The adventures of Ilan Stavans, radical lexicographer and Spanglish champion
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August 5, 2003Two Essential Guides to American English Get a Makeover—and Word Geeks Rejoice
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