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Mavis Gallant 'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write' Mavis Gallant at Le Dôme restaurant in Paris. Photograph: Paul Cooper A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box...
Tags: New Yorker, New York Review, New York Times, selected story, Paris, short story, Green Sky, Montreal, story writer, New York City
Thursday, Nov 19, 2009 16:20 PST It's time to put to rest the idea that planes fly themselves...Maybe that's a tad over the top, but it's hard for me to argue. As I've expressed before, nobody does a story better than Langewiesche.
Tags: Patrick Smith William Langewiesche, Mr. Sullenberger, Missy Cummings, assistant professors, airbus a320, Renee Montagne, New York Times, Emily Rooney, Argentina, Buenos Aires, US Airways Flight, Airbus A320 family, Aircraft flight control systems, Emergency landing, Aviator, Aviation accidents and incidents, Chesley Sullenberger, Jet aircraft
Ask Jane Lynch The Glee and Role Models star is one of only a few gay women on our screens Jane Lynch, star of Glee and The 40 Year Old Virgin. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images We all know that Hollywood is run by a cabal of homosexuals (or Jews,...
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Republican consultants interpret Giuliani's week in the spotlight as a sign he is seriously considering a return to politics after being mostly absent from the national stage for the past year or so. "He's getting back into fighting shape," said GOP strategist...
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Gurney's new play that puts September 11 in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. More recently, the New York Times gave the play a lukewarm review, and a subsequent Times article thought the play was pro-Palestinian. (Perhaps the writer, Clyde Haberman,...
Tags: Voice, Command Decision, Rue Madeleine, Macbeth, New York Times, Viva Zapata, Jerusalem, Los Angeles
Citing public concern that meat companies and federal regulators are not doing enough to make ground beef safe, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand , Democrat of New York, has introduced legislation that would require companies to test for a deadly E. coli strain....
Tags: ground beef, meat companies, spot checks, American Meat Institute, New York Times, New York City, Meat processing, Beef mince, Slaughterhouse, Kirsten Gillibrand, Beef, Escherichia coli, American cuisine, Escherichia coli O157:H7
In Unicornland. According to the Recovery.gov website—a website that the Obama administration has spent $18 million “stimulating”—millions have been spent and hundreds of jobs have been created in heretofore unknown areas of America: 30 jobs using $761,420...
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Cognitive scientist and best-selling author Dr. Steven Pinker will speak at 7 tonight at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa on 'The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.' Pinker, a professor in Harvard University's psychology...
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At present, Americans are fascinated by a particular kind of monstrosity, by vampires and zombies condemned to live an eternity by feeding off the souls of the living. The preoccupation with such parasitic relations speaks uncannily to the threat most...
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New York's policy of limiting the number of parades on Fifth Avenue is not a restriction on free speech, a federal appeals court has ruled...Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court finding that the city's so-called Fifth Avenue rule is constitutional,...
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