links for 2007-06-27
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"It was Tristram Shandy who helped me get over it all, to put everything in perspective. It made me laugh again, even though I didn't have anything to laugh about. I saw Laurence Sterne dealing with his critics in the book and I admired the sharp, precise
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satire
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Salman Rushdie’s knighthood raises the same question now that his work raised in 1989. Do we choose to live in a world that honors writers or in a world that kills them?
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congratulations Frank
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I love the picture of Cheney.
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(tip to Swedes For Obama
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Young Americans are more likely to favor an open-door policy on immigration, the legalization of gay marriage and government-run health care, a poll found.
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The real debate over the Rushdie knighting ought to be whether a state, in this case the "British Empire," ought to have the privilege to say which writers are good and which are bad.
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