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With the arrival of the New Year 1903, the outlook in Dayton was more promising than ever. The local population had reached nearly 100,000

It seemed to me that regional speech is in the process of disappearing, not gone but going. Forty years of radio and twenty years

The show opened on time. Sound of sirens. Motorcycle cops. Then two big black cars filled with big men in blond felt hats pulled

Beeline for the urinal and unzip; release bladder and think of Fidel Castro’s face. Right around 1961, when the Cuban government was televising political

Wars, famine, crime, violence, inflation, recession, a shifting of traditional forms of social interaction, the threat of nuclear proliferation, HIV, holocaust in all its

In the end, as I later learned, the steel production campaign was a total failure. Well, it was a big joke: Anyone with any

Since 2009, 13,195 bills had been proposed, and only 386 had made it out of committee and been voted in to law. The very

The danger with raising children here is that they won’t know that America isn’t the world, that it is just another country, that people

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There’s

Has humanities education turned off students by becoming too ideologically monolithic? Research by Samuel J. Abrams, a professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College,