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New York Times Magazine Has Rare Impact
The New York Times Magazine spends most of its time deconstructing politics, science, culture and society in a way that seems designed to induce terminal bouts of torpidity. But Sunday’s New York Times...
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Taylor Branch’s Pen State Of College Athletics
From our Late to the Party desk: Sometimes it’s good to be behind the curve. The hardreading staff has just started digging into Taylor Branch’s monumental October 2011 Atlantic piece The Shame of...
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When A Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .
Well, that’s just sad. The hardworking staff has a habit of recording mangled phrases in the press, and here’s our latest batch. • About a week ago, the Boston Globe ran a story about CBS’s decision to...
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Big Town Scotty Brown Makes NYT Mag
This Sunday is WWSD-Day in the New York Times Magazine (tip o’ the pixel to Politico’s Playbook). What Would Scott Brown Do? In case you weren’t keeping track — don’t worry, that was a joke! — Scott...
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C.J. Chivers (Rhymes With Shivers) Is One Helluva Writer
On a beautiful sun-dappled afternoon last May, I sat on a bench in Square Henri Galli, a Paris pocket park across the Seine from Île Saint Louis, and while des enfants frolicked about, read a New York...
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