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Ordinary novelists have readers. Thomas Pynchon has decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...Montana, where a Mason-Dixon poll shows 71% support for a $1 minimum wage hike, an opposition group recently tried to challenge the signatures gathered by the initiative supporters. But last week a judge ruled that the challenge had been filed too late. In Colorado, opponents of the wage initiative, dubbed Amendment 42, say that raising entry-level pay in the state to $6.85 would hinder job growth. They ran a TV ad showing Moses pleading with God for divine intervention to stop the wage initiative. "We can't let the people make this mistake," God responds. "Go. Spread...
...Geoff swam real fast,” Degnan-Rojeski said. “He was very good, as always.” Although Rathgeber’s excellent swimming certainly bodes well for Harvard, perhaps the most encouraging displays at the meet came from the Crimson freshmen. First years Mason Brunnick, Tommy Gray, and Alex Meyer combined for 16 points in a 1-2-3 finish in the 1000-yard freestyle. They then jumped right back into the water for the exhibition round of the 200-yard freestyle. “Those three really showed some grit today...
Mauboussin, chief investment strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management, wrote More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
...hoping to get put up here,” Mason said. “It seems like a tighter-knit community...