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Rooms for the Dead: Close Read : The New Yorker
19/03/10 17:54
Posted by Amy Davidson · George Packer has a post about the Times's slide show of photographs of the bedrooms of young soldiers killed in our ongoing wars, kept as they left them. The slide show, “The Shrine Down the Hall”; ...
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The Tilley Bracket: The Sporting Scene : The New Yorker
18/03/10 17:39
The Tilley Bracket. Posted by Amy Davidson . If President Obama can make a show of putting together his brackets for the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament, then so can New Yorker writers and editors. Unlike him, we can do so without making ...
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Bin Laden : The New Yorker
17/03/10 18:35
Bin Laden's Body. Posted by Amy Davidson . What is Eric Holder talking about? In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said,. You're talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. The reality is that we will be ....
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Mules and Bloggers: Close Read : The New Yorker
16/03/10 22:19
Posted by Amy Davidson . A follow-up to yesterday's post on whether the Pentagon has been using private contractors to gather intelligence and kill people in Afghanistan; and an important announcement. From the Times story on Michael ...
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Rielle Hunter : The New Yorker
16/03/10 19:55
Posted by Amy Davidson . Lisa DePaulo's interview for GQ with Rielle Hunter, the woman who had an affair and a child with John Edwards, the former Presidential candidate, is as mad as advertised. But it's also less fun than it should be, ....
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Massa : The New Yorker
10/03/10 17:42
Posted by Amy Davidson . When I wrote about Eric Massa yesterday, it didn't seem likely that the story could get much stranger. More sordid, certainly; we were only beginning to hear about the actual ethics allegations that had led to ...
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Do Dogs Dream of War?: Close Read : The New Yorker
04/03/10 22:11
Posted by Amy Davidson . Here is a story about dogs and war, from the Wall Street Journal: a yellow lab named Gunner, who lives with some of our Marines in Afghanistan,. is suffering from such severe canine post-traumatic stress disorder ....
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The : The New Yorker
01/03/10 20:17
Posted by Amy Davidson . This is one aspect of the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad controversy that I'll admit to having missed. From a Times story on the theory, promoted by anti-choice activists, “that abortion is the primary tool in a ...
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Sullivan, Wieseltier, and Auden: Close Read : The New Yorker
12/02/10 17:59
Posted by Amy Davidson . One sympathizes with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who writes, “I don't have much to say about Wieseltier's piece on my band-mate”—Leon Wieseltier's wide-ranging, much remarked attack on Andrew Sullivan for The New Republic, ....
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The Strange Case of Who Dat: Close Read : The New Yorker
09/02/10 23:21
Posted by Amy Davidson . Who says “Who Dat”? What does it mean, and is it a bit odd that, in celebrating the Saints' Super Bowl victory this week, we've all broken into dialect? The answer is interesting, concerning, as it does, ...