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The American Scholar: Celebrity Profiles

9 years ago

Phllip Lopate writes a good essay on the challenges of writing a celebrity profile. My take: Just as Plato argued…

Is the United Airlines man being smeared in the media even the right David Dao? It shouldn’t matter

9 years ago

“Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age…

The facts evolve as we look into how our re-accommodation process that involved goons dragging out a limp and bloodied customer has caused our stock to plunge.

9 years ago

The language in the official United response to the "re-accommodation" incident deserves some analysis . Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville…

Captain, the Fake News Detectors are Offline!

9 years ago

Slate has a good article about William "Captain Kirk" Shatner's involvement with a Twitter incident that involved Autism Speaks, the…

Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?

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My precious is fifteen.

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The boy tied for second place in Saturday’s Monroeville Chess Club tournament.

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Peter was the lowest-ranked player to enter the tournament, but ended up tied for second place.

I regularly teach Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but have never seen it before.

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Alike (2015)

9 years ago

This short film reminds us why art matters. Spend 8 minutes watching it. Two heart-wrenching twists, at 5:26 and 5;48…

Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor

9 years ago

A letter, published a few weeks ago, in which the inventor of the World Wide Web discusses personal security, fake…

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