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… President Richard Nixon’s foreign policy precepts, as embodied in his second inaugural, seemed promising enough. “The … for generations. That dichotomy of purpose has been so commonplace in American thought that it has scarcely … order. Thus it is not strange that American officials have often assumed that by supporting a military balance …

… the office. My job was to open the fight world to Lee and company, guiding them through its deep course catalogue of … And Frazier, who spent weeks in the hospital after soldiering through Ali’s punches in order to beat him, was … again. Having come into the first fight with Ali with a 26-0 record, he went 5-4-1 after it. The four losses were to …

… Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees! O for the voices of animals! Thus he warbles, making room with his constant, … poet and our travel-guide is dead. To “effuse” himself in eddies, to dismantle the body, to die back into nature or the …

… “By Such Small Things” By such small things we die: Goliath died by only this— A stone; and Judas by the glint Of silver …

… On the Recent Kathy Acker Craze   By the time Kathy Acker died, in the autumn of 1997, I was nineteen and fully under … it felt so now , like the e-mails that could have been composed today instead of two decades before. I don’t even … throughout. He was Acker’s lover and mentor at many points. Kraus never once mentions her connection to him or …