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...WORLD CUP 2002 The Ultimate Samba Asia's Morning After Moving up the Rankings Essay: The Final Tally
...producer Charles Granata is a first-rate Sinatra scholar, with a scholar's interest in the details. Same for the exceptionally knowledgeable critic Will Friedwald, who contributes an essay. But having Granata and Friedwald expend their energies on this material is like having Stephen Hawking explain why the little hand counts the hours and the big hand counts the minutes. For the rest of us, it's just a matter of being suckered. --By Daniel Okrent
...Gould underwent successful treatment for cancer that doctors had said was terminal. He recounted the experience in his renowned essay “The Median Isn’t the Message,” in which he wrote of learning that, statistically speaking, he had a matter of months to live but decided to defy the odds...
...Faculty vote of April 22 can be interpreted as anything else but action in the face of threats,” he wrote in an essay shortly after the vote...
...part Vidal's take on September 11th. The book is relatively jerry-built structurally, consisting of an article about 9-11 rejected by Vanity Fair and then published in Italy, where it became a best seller. It should be said, however, that the original version of Vidal's essay (published in Italian under the title "The End of Liberty: Toward a New Totalitarianism") is longer than the American version, which has either been revised or sanitized, depending on how you look at it (the original contains a paragraph in which Vidal speculates that the wealthy Osama bin Laden chose...