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Op-Ed Columnist - Some Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners - NYTimes.comSome Things Don’t Change in Grover’s Corners “WHEREVER you come near the human race, there’s layers and layers of nonsense,” says the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Those words were first heard by New York audiences in February 1938 , as America continued to reel from hard ...
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The Truth about Hypocrisy: Scientific AmericanFormer U.S. vice president Al Gore urges us all to reduce our carbon footprint, yet he regularly flies in a private jet. Former drug czar William Bennett extols the importance of temperance but is reported to be a habitual gambler. Pastor Ted Haggard preached the virtues of “the clean life” ...
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Tragedy at Wal-Mart and the Consumerization of Christmas | Britannica BlogOn Friday, a Wal-Mart store clerk in Valley Stream, New York, was killed after throngs of Black Friday shoppers broke down the front doors and trampled over him as they rushed in, searching for post-Thanksgiving Day bargains. The Associated Press reports that the impatient crowd knocked the man ...
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