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But those glorious long sentences are part of the explanation for the slow decay of Milton's reputation. He's not a poet for the sound-bite century. Consider the famous passage from Paradise Lost, describing Eve in Eden, which is one of the culminating exhibits in Smith's celebration...
Joe Klein feels certain that Pennsylvania voters based their choice on "low-information signaling" and the social body language of the candidates. The bias and sheer presumption of this piece is astounding. Did Klein consider for a moment that maybe those who voted for Clinton think her just as capable...
It's astonishing to me how many in China seem incapable of acknowledging the plight of Tibetans. India has dozens of insurgencies, but its democratic politics have largely accommodated such dissent. China thoroughly crushed Tibet, squelched its culture and ultimately forced the country's spiritual leader into a sad exile...
? Some 2,500 Jewish children in Warsaw were spared death at the hands of the Nazis from 1940 to 1943 thanks to the efforts of Polish social worker Irena Sendlerowa. Through a variety of means--smuggling children through sewers, hiding them in suitcases or even in her clothing--Sendlerowa...
The specific concern filed by Wagner and Sancho is that according to some theories, the LHC, by fracturing atoms into smaller and smaller parts, may create one of three exotic yet dangerous possibilities. The first option is a strangelet, a small particle that makes other atoms strangelets until it ?...