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...Thoreau You Don't Know By Robert Sullivan Collins; 354 pages...
...dollar bailouts and Iraq-war allocations so that everyone who wants to can switch offices. Each office is allotted by seniority, which is calculated according to a formula that involves number of years in the Senate, previous federal jobs, the size of your state and eight other factors. Obviously, Robert Byrd has the best office, since he's served the longest. Still, when it's time to move, Byrd gets a day to check out any new office he might want. Then, over the next three months, draft rights trickle down to the 99 other Senators. "I don't think...
...time we finish high school, most of us know Henry David Thoreau as "the eccentric who went into the wild to live monastically," as Robert Sullivan puts it--an image that Sullivan, author of the rodent history Rats, says is entirely wrong. The man who penned Walden and Civil Disobedience was eminently sociable, quite funny and more interested in social critique than in actually persuading people to shun society and live in a shack in the woods. Walden was "written to inspire modern citizens to break out from the lockstep of culture and in so doing make a new connection...
...Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...
...Never underestimate the capacity of angry populism in times of economic stress," - Robert Reich, The New York Times, March...