Daniel S. Benjamin

Groping Toward Humanity

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N ews of Deep Blue's victory over reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov has been splattered across newspapers everywhere, including

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N ORMAN MAILER '43 had to write this brick of a book. After all that grand talk and those grandstanding

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R ICHARD ATTENBOROUGH'S GANDHI is probably as morally simple a work as one is likely to see in a movie

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I T WAS A BAD SUMMER for journalism After being virtually shut out of the war in the Falklands because

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It was the autumn of our ennui. It was the word of times. It was the worst of times. October

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T HE NOTION OF DESIGNER UNDERWEAR strikes many people as more than a trifle silly. These people contend that the

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N OT TOO MANY PEOPLE, know what juneberries look like for that matter, the number of people who can tell

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I T'S FUNNY the way things get jumbled up. Funny when people who one thought were inconsequential prove otherwise, funny

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O NE MIGHT HAVE expected it of Saul Bellow Perhaps it was the Nobel Prize. Or maybe it was the

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O N GOLDEN POND rewinds me of Sugar Daddies. Actually, it makes me think of all sorts of gooey candy