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Nabokov on videoWatch as Vladimir Nabokov reads the first paragraph of Lolita in English & Russian, shares his favorite books, and lists a bunch of things that he doesn't like. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the... |
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Dysfynctional if politically necesary, but not necesarily disfunctionalThe 'paragraph of the day' award goes to the Ottawa Citizen, for this graph in today's editorial:Whether this Parliament is dysfunctional or not depends on many factors, not the least of which is how long it will be before Stephen Harper decides it is in his political interest to declare it dysfu... |
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CORRECTION FROM SOURCE/Media Advisory: Canadian HeritageA correction from source is being issued with respect to the media advisory sent out this morning at 09:00 a.m. ET. There was an error in the first paragraph. The corrected version follows. ... |
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Consumer confidence and optimism (Marginal Utility)This is the last paragraph from David Leonhardt's article yesterday about consumer confidence (I would have made it the lead):It would be silly to insist that a few terrible months meant the end of... ... |
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Zeugma Avoidance -- a Canon of Construction:Rereading D.C. v. Heller, I was struck by the following passage (one paragraph break added):... ... |
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Arnold Kling on Trusting Scholarship and Peer ReviewA terrific comment by Arnold Kling on when to trust the findings of an economics paper. Of particular interest is the last paragraph, which discusses peer review: I put no... ... |
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