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BUMPING OFF YOUR BETTERS
Plagiarism is a penny ante thing, a measly squalor. It's like insider trading - a pervasive, petty, ploy that excites indignation and punishment, but, precisely because of its simmering ubiquity, fails to boil up to a real problem.
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HAPPY VALLEY
Horror in Happy Valley, Not-So-Happy Valley, Happy Valley Upside Down - journalists everywhere are tilling the furrow between Penn State University's amber waves of grain and its shower stalls.
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BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
Let's take a look at the controversial cover to Steve Reich's 9/11 composition, WTC 9/11. Why is it controversial? Should...
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ROSZAK DROPS OUT
The author of the influential book about the sixties, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society...
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ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF SANITY
There are psychiatrists in our universities who think half the population is mentally ill. There are leading research psychiatrists who...
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Novel
"I cannot think of another French novel over the past two decades that has generated this much interest, debate, and...
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Tapis Roulant Hédonique
So many men, so many horny greedy self-saboteurs. This week has featured Strauss-Kahn and the Sperminator, but spectacular flame-out among...
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UBU SEASON
A week that features Bernard Madoff denouncing people for being greedy, and Moammar Gaddafi delivering a sermon on love, can...