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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Did the President “Lie” About Obamacare, or Did He Believe What He Wanted to Believe?
It’s not just conservative pundits throwing around the L word.
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Eloquent Economic Commentary from Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, my hero, sings the praises of open markets in a tightly edited, 6-minute video on the Templeton Foundation site, part of a series of discussions about “big questions” such as “Does the free market corrode moral character?” English is at least her fourth language — she was born in Saudi Arabia, came…
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Let’s Go Mets
The whole post-every-day thing is already running out of steam. So far the blog seems to be mostly about Obama. Today it’s about the Mets — game starts at 1:10, I need to head for the train in less than an hour, I’m meeting my son Harry at the ballpark. Johan Santana (8-7) vs. Kyle…
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George Will Has Obama’s Back on Egypt
George Will is often out of step with other conservatives. Sometimes I’m glad of this, and sometimes I’m not. He speaks wisdom in his latest column, taking on the Righties who use every news peg to try to bash President Obama. (Some elements of the Left, of course, are equally guilty of this tendency.) Here’s…
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AOL to Acquire Maplewood. Sort Of.
(Welcome, New York Times readers.) Comes today the news that AOL is acquiring Patch.com, the owner of Maplewood Patch, a stalwart member of the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM. (I’ll have you know I taught myself how to hand-code that superscript in HTML.) Maplewood Patch, by way of disclosure, has seen fit to publish some articles I have…
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Newsweek Declares Victory in Iraq
Something that looks mighty like democracy is emerging in Iraq.