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James M. Larkin

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Pep Poise

So the Girl Talk pep rally ended in ignominy. Audience members were shoved and crushed to the point of bruising,


More Dirt

Something’s rotten in the neighborhood of Roxbury. And the city of Detroit. And the state of Alaska. Corruption charges and


The Measure of a Man

It comes perhaps as no surprise that Americans appreciate above all things the need for a stout, bright heart in


Worth Watching

Democrats are fed up. They’ve now been given several manufactured, make-or-break Tuesdays, and yet the primary churns on. Now things


Locking the Gates

Monday, I tried to tell a high school junior on a college tour what life is like at Harvard. He


A Tainted Legacy

In an unsettling return to the Reagan Era—still the cause of some mourning in America—viewers of major news programs were


Finding ‘Freedom’

Along with what is fast becoming an irredeemably bleak legacy, the Bush administration will leave behind a lexicon that even


In Defense of Pig Farmers

Today, droves of urbane politicos and journalists will check out of the Des Moines Ramada with their business settled, and