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Tag: Vol. 35 No. 48
Issue of Aug. 24 – 30, 2006
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Measuring poverty with a broken yardstick
Poor people have more spacious homes, more cars, and healthier kids than 30 years ago. Why is the “poverty rate” higher?
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Good advice I’ve never gotten
What you should have learned in college or from your folks; 46 varieties of male privilege; why it’s so hard for magazines (and blogs) to keep it real; and the imperishable value of mediocrity.
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Tortoise boxed, the Reader in “Best Music Writing,” the Like Young retires
Tortoise releases a box set of remixes and rarities, Monica Kendrick is featured in “Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006,” and the Like Young call it quits.
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“I’m really sorry, but I’m going to give a lecture today . . .”
James Redfield’s back-to-school comments: “Students do complain a lot when we don’t tell them what it is that we know.”
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Monday Morning Mania
Carson’s end, the one thing teachers want most, why Judy shouldn’t like conservatives, and why Chicago shouldn’t follow northwest Indiana’s lead.
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World’s best whiskey bar
The last word on the Cheney administration’s foreign policy: “Manichaeism is not a plan.”
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Linkin’ & thinkin’
Eighteenth-century titans play chess; a mesh shirt conceals all; the big-box ordinance defeats itself; so do NutraSweet and computers; and the Reformation ends, provoking an unseemly question.
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Atheist conservative vs. religious conservative smackdown!
Conservatism without gods–what would Louis XIV say?
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The Chicago freedom movement at 40
A civil-rights anniversary with little to cheer about.