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… Jane Jacobs dies at 89 Jane Jacobs, one of the great intellectuals, activists, and urban theorists of the twentieth … century, died yesterday in Toronto. Obituaries and commentary are at the New York Daily News , Toronto Globe & … Jane Jacobs dies at 89 …
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… The Life and Opinions of Captain Donald Lipscomb Captain Donald Lipscomb on base in Baghdad. (Dimiter Kenarov) [I met Captain … Reporting. Learn more about this project on the Pulitzer website . By Dimiter Kenarov … The Life and Opinions of Captain Donald Lipscomb …
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… Side, we holed up in a squat and barricaded it like a medieval fortress, welding the doors shut from the inside and … taken over five towns in Chiapas, posting demands on their website for indigenous rights and autonomy, in what was … the driver jumps out of the cab and runs away. On September 26, packing to leave New York, Brad sent an e-mail to Al …
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… life—muscle on muscle on muscle, a LEGO stack of bodies—threw themselves into the water, dangled on wires, and … body—a parenthesis surrounded by bobbing exclamation points. Seven women formed a circle in the lower corner of … with a six-month-old baby at home—came in second, .2667 points behind the winning Russian team. In both the …
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… numbed or terrified by what surrounds them—the state, the community, or the violence of the prairie itself. The first … horrors. He is the insensitive killer, but he is also capable of losing himself in romantic daydreams or his … when he lighted them, and he knew that someone would die. Although the story closes with the boy angrily seeking …
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… surprisingly, spontaneously foul-mouthed when in the right company.) And he’s unusually frank about his spotty … brims with Hispanic references: the Romancero (Spain’s medieval ballad tradition), the vallenato (a native music … is exactly the same as that of Leaf Storm; they’re points of view organized around a dead man’s body. In Leaf …