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Was Tebow All That Bad?: Close Read : The New Yorker
08/02/10 17:08
Was Tebow All That Bad? Posted by Amy Davidson . So was the Tim Tebow ad worth all that advance criticism, some of it here at Close Read? It was both better and worse than expected. Better: Neither Tim nor his mother, Pam Tebow, ...
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The Super Bowl : Close Read : The New Yorker
06/02/10 16:59
Posted by Amy Davidson . The crowd that watched the Saints play (and lose) their first game ever, in September, 1967, included two boys who grew up to be writers for The New Yorker: Peter J. Boyer and Nicholas Lemann. ...
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What Happened at COP Keating?: Close Read : The New Yorker
05/02/10 23:27
Posted by Amy Davidson . The executive summary (pdf) of a military report on why eight American soldiers died last fall in an attack on Command Outpost Keating, in Afghanistan, contains a passage that might be applied more broadly to the ....
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What about ManCrunch?: Close Read : The New Yorker
04/02/10 22:31
Posted by Amy Davidson . One question, for those, like Close Read, who have been following the controversy over Tim Tebow's anti-abortion Super Bowl ad, is whether pro-choice groups would be allowed the same access to the big game. ...
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The Tebow Defense: Close Read : The New Yorker
04/02/10 21:13
The Tebow Defense. Posted by Amy Davidson . Tim Tebow, the University of Florida quarterback, prayed with Barack Obama and a few thousand other people at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning. Did he and the President talk about ...
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Unprosecutable Words: Close Read : The New Yorker
29/01/10 19:36
Posted by Amy Davidson . A note on language. The Washington Post writes today that, of the hundred and ninety-two prisoners at Guantánamo, fifty. are too dangerous to release but are unprosecutable and should be held under the laws of ...
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Labor in the Rubble: Close Read : The New Yorker
21/01/10 15:16
Posted by Amy Davidson · A BBC crew came across a group of women walking in the streets of Port-au-Prince. One of them was very pregnant, wearing a oversize Detroit Tigers jersey as a tunic, and the others, surrounding her, were singin..
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One Year: The Rookie: Close Read : The New Yorker
20/01/10 14:45
Posted by Amy Davidson . When Barack Obama was inaugurated, a year ago today, he was compared to Jackie Robinson. And that made sense. But how do their first years measure up? Both had to deal with a lot of nonsense. ...