The New Yorker - July 21, 2008 (CAN/USA)
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Dreams. Realities.
After an evening of tantrums that shook the
walls, Kate has finally begun to dream. »> But
down the hall, her father wonders how he'll
afford to send her to college, while her mother
considers a larger home. >>> Downtown, Kate's
overworked pediatrician ponders an early
r...
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(page 3)
Armchair
travel
that's just
the ticket.
F r om China...
T h e bestselling author of The Sex
Lives of Cannibals visits Chairman
Mao (still dead), hikes up Tai Shan
with eighty thousand of his nearest
and dearest, and deciphers an
authentic Chinese menu—cattle
privates anyone?
...to Afr...
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“ GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN”
(page 7)
GOING5 O N ABOUT TOWN
5 . M • T • W • T • F • 5
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THI5 WEEK
THE THEATRE
THEY'LL G O ON
The Lincoln Center Festival
includes "Gate/Beckett," a
series of one-man Beckett
dramas that were not
originally intended for the
stage and are being
presented by Dublin's Gate
Th...
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“ THE TALK OF THE TOWN”
(page 28)
THE TALK. O F T H E TOWN
C O M M E N T
F L I P - F L O P F L AP
One of the World Wide Web's most
distinguished organs of fake news,
the Borowitz Report, leads its current
issue with this flash:
The liberal blogosphere was aflame today
with new accusations that Sen. Barack
Obama (D-Ill) i...
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“ ON AND OFF THE AVENUE: BUY SHANGHAI”
(page 41)
O N A N D O F F T H E A V E N UE
BUY SHANGHAI!
A city for sale.
BY P A T R I C I A M A B X
New York may be the city that never
sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even
sit down, and not just because there is
no room. Things move fast in this town
which is both new and old, Western and
Eastern, ...
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“ THE POLITICAL SCENE”
(page 49)
Barack Obama on the South Side during his first campaign, for the State Senate. An outsider in Chicago's system, he was meticulous about
T H E P O L I T I C A L 5CENE
MAKING IT
How Chicago shaped Obama.
BY R Y A N L I Z ZA
political identity and coalition. Photograph by Marc PoKempner.
One ...
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“ POETRY: COURTING FORGETFULNESS”
(page 52)
C O U R T I N G F O R G E T F U L N E 55
It's hard to know what sort of rough music
Could send our forgetfulness back into the ground,
From which the gravediggers pulled it years ago.
The first moment of the day we court forgetfulness.
Even when we are fully awake, a century can
Go by in th...
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L I V E 5 A N D L E T T E RS
THE LION AND
THE MOUSE
The battle that reshaped chUdren's literature.
BY J I L L L E P O BE
Anne Carroll Moore was born long
ago but not so far away, in Limerick,
Maine, in 1871. She had a horse
named Pocahontas, a father who read to
her from Aesop's Fables, ...
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