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Little God
Little God Take a look, little god, at the pecked and smattered sill above the street where thin drunkards wrap their chests in a vest of old headlines. The slate ledge tilts toward the fire escape’s homemade cross marking the death of our super who …
Restoring India’s Political Process
… Political Process The essence of the action taken on June 26, 1975, and in the weeks and months that followed it, was … of the Emergency. The spate of jail-breaking events; the studied sullenness of the public in mass meetings despite all … normalcy must take full cognizance of this. There are two points involved here. First, the bandh-gherao culture that …
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Profits and False Promises
… drug I was on (brand name Taxol), contains an active ingredient by the same name. It also contains castor oil, an … in Switzerland (1905), England (1918), the Soviet Union (1926), the United States (1934), Italy (1936), and Japan … abandon a confrontational stance, since scoring political points for protecting American health could now be done far …
New Letters of Guy De Maupassant
… who goes every day to the Exhibition, so that he may compare it with the others. I shall see him about this. We … to show it to Perrin, although he does not believe the Comedie-Francaise will accept it, as Perrin has had enough of … Sotteville, near Yvetot. Contemporary evidence points to Fecamp, where the name of the street where he was …
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The Year of Not Believing
… not even in the worst of it, I get hung up on. She died so suddenly all I can picture is the oxygen mask …
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Home Alone
… is the place where particularly vivid idealism comes to die; its skyscrapers, high and jagged, pierce the strongest … and then—more dangerous still—emotionally adrift. On Dec. 26, Paramount will release “ Revolutionary Road ,” a Sam … in Yonkers, and drifted in and out of the city at various points in his life. (He died in 1992, having weathered a …
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