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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Stoic's Counsel Refuted by William Shakespeare, etc

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ANTONIO: If you go on thus, you will kill yourself, And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief Against yourself. LEONATO: I pray thee ceas...
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Sunday, March 7, 2010

FDR's Second Inaugural Address

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My fellow countrymen. When four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here. We...

Harry's Funeral by Nathanael West

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"The services are beginning," the man said, then opened a little casket covered with grossgrain satin and took out a dust cloth. ...
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

Struggling with Integrity: An Interview with Walt Odets by Jon Robin Baitz

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Awake and Sing! Lincoln Center Theatre Review Spring 2006, Issue 42 This past January, the playwright Jon Robin Baitz traveled to Berkeley,...

Beyond the 'American Dream' by Morris Dickstein

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The Great Depression drew unprecedented attention to the once invisible America inhabited by the poor- to the warped lives in all the suffoc...
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

'Fist Held High" by Amy Bass

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On May 11, 1976, a few months before the United States plunged into celebrations of its bicentennial, secretary of the interior Thomas S. K...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Health Care Reform by James Gailbraith

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Health care per se is not a market; if you draw a supply-and-demand diagram for health care there is no quantity to put on the horizontal ax...
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