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God And Jerk At Yale
by Rachel Toor, Chronicle Of Higher EducationThe difference between having a college degree and not having one is far greater than where you go to college. But where you go can determine, to a large extent, who you become. Some of us become jerks. And others spend our lives trying to figure out what it meant to have been there — and how to get over it.
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Harvesting The Waste Land: An Anthology Of New Criticism
by Adam Kirsch, New York SunThe New Criticism is too good and too serious to be dismissed as advertisement. It deserves to be remembered, instead, as the scaffolding on which the monument of modernism was raised.
http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,301684689,1346,f/
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This Is Not My Beautiful Wife
by Laura Miller, SalonMeteorology meets conspiracy in Rivka Glachen's exquisite first novel about a man who mistakes his wife for an impostor.
http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,301684688,1346,f/
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Louis Owens And John Steinbeck's Ghosts
by Tony Ortega, Village VoiceA mystery solved with the help of a professor and a mobster's musician.
http://www.newsisfree.com/iclick/i,301684687,1346,f/
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Down With The Perfect 10!
by Jordan Ellenberg, SlateA mathematician explains the genius of the new gymnastics scoring system.
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A Bristle Of Wings In The Ivy
by Teresa Cader, Slate
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Bizarre Death Of The Man Who Talked Too Much
by Joseph Weisberg, New York TimesIn "The Terminal Spy" Alan S. Cowell, a veteran foreign correspondent for The New York Times, gives an absorbing account of Mr Litvinenko's life and bizarre murder. Along the way he explains how Russia lost and got back its tremendous energy resources after the fall of the Soviet Union, describes how wealthy Russians have turned London into "Moscow-on-the-Thames" and tries to determine if the Litvinenko murder is the harbinger of a new and es
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'Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)' By Tom Vanderbilt
by Mathew DeBord, Los Angeles TimesAn encyclopedic look at traffic woes. Unfortunately, it goes nowhere.
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Britons Abroad: Speaking In Tongues
by Michael Church, The IndependentEach language represents a particular kind of society, and a particular way of feeling and thinking. For those who speak it, it's the sum of human intelligence. We should all take note, and cherish our little grammar books.
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While A Magician Works, The Mind Does The Tricks
by Benedict Carey, New York Times"Here's this art form gooing back perhaps to ancietn Egypt, and basically the neuroscience community had been unaware" of its direct application to the study of perception, Dr Marthinez-Conde said.
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