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… Bolivia. Those were the days when the Cold War pitted Communist countries against their capitalist rivals. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the ambassador of armed … like a trance state. “We put pajamas on him, but the soldiers pulled them down to show where the bullets were—in a …
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… he declared. There is something plaintive about his work (“Come to help me, words,” he called out. “Run to me!”), which … not live long.” Orten knew that his life had been slit. He died in a bizarre accident in Prague in the late summer of … and Charlock (1941), were printed under pseudonyms. He also prepared two more collections that were published after …
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… Marie Antoinette impatient, and she asks her husband, the comparably effete Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), to … Gang of Four’s “Natural’s Not in It,” and draws on a steady diet of new wave and post-punk amid more period-appropriate … costume dramas—in which Emily Dickinson elegantly needlepoints the phrase F My Life ; Catherine the Great …
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… an Ivy League school in the last five years, whether you studied chemistry or Celtic literature, you probably work at … to be dispossessed spends an inordinate amount of time comparing the gourmet kitchens of different website headquarters. The top digital companies in the Bay …
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… The Levy Family and Monticello At the time of his death in 1826, Thomas Jefferson was near bankruptcy, and his family had … years has the full story of the Levy family and Monticello come to light. I When he came of age, Thomas Jefferson … Jefferson was more than a gifted tinkerer. He studied classical architecture, and in his five years in France …
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… Alice Munro has always been a writer’s writer, and she has also become, for a short story writer, highly popular, simply for … She has a novel’s-worth of incident and character change compressed into a fairly short story. But her stories have …