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| Introduction | |
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| War | |
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| Like a River of Steel It Flowed, Gray and Ghostlike | |
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| The Chauffeurs of Madrid | |
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| "Peace"-And the Crisis Begins | |
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| Jock Evans Was on Duty That Night | |
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| Pearl Harbor | |
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| The God-Damned Infantry | |
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| The Death of Captain Waskow | |
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| D-Day: A Pure Miracle | |
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| Dispatches from the End of the War | |
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| There Are No Young Guys Here | |
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| To Root Against Your Country | |
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| Obituary for South Vietnam | |
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| Hallelujah | |
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| Word of the Year: Freedom | |
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| Death Takes Hold Among the Living | |
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| We'll Go Forward From This Moment | |
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| Boots on the Ground, Hearts on Their Sleeves | |
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| A Village Waiting for Rape and Murder | |
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| Farewell to Geronimo | |
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| Politics | |
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| What's the Matter with Kansas? | |
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| Good Luck to the Anti-Bolshevists | |
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| Gamalielese | |
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| Scopes Monkey Trial | |
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| There Is a Ship | |
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| The Mad | |
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| Welch Defends One Friend and Finds He's Made Many | |
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| The Ninth Life | |
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| A Day of Endless Fitness | |
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| Touring Dixie with LBJ | |
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| The Decisive Political Center | |
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| Are You Against the Handicapped? | |
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| Nixon's Resignation | |
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| Being Spied On Has Benefits of Sorts | |
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| Reagan Shot: End of a Dream | |
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| Slats Mistakes GOP for GOD | |
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| The Sound of a Lapdog | |
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| Supreme Court Buzzword Guide | |
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| When Clinton Talks, People Listen-and Vice Versa | |
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| No Guardrails | |
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| Pulp Nonfiction | |
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| Eastern Middle School | |
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| In Defense of the F-Word | |
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| The End of Placeness | |
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| Palin Problem | |
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| Morning in America | |
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| Sports | |
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| Casey at the Bat | |
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| The Four Horsemen | |
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| Louis Knocks Out Schmeling | |
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| Seabiscuit: The Gamest Thoroughbred | |
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| "Iron Horse" Breaks | |
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| The Graziano-Zale Fight | |
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| Death of a Racehorse | |
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| Miracle of Coogan's Bluff | |
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| Fisk's Home Run in 12th Beats Reds | |
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| Reggie Jackson's Three Homers | |
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| Muhammad Ali | |
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| A Slugger, Right from the First Tee | |
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| Webber College: Best Team You Never Saw | |
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| Why Is Baseball So Much Better Than Football? | |
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| Who Has Won and Who Has Lost? | |
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| For Timeless Player, It Was Time | |
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| Her Blue Haven | |
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| Humor | |
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| The Danger of Lying in Bed | |
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| First Entries in the Devil's Dictionary | |
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| Reform Administration | |
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| Congress is Funniest When It's Serious | |
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| Tips on Horses | |
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| Apology | |
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| Death Pays a Social Call | |
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| The Vertical Negro Plan | |
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| Political Poll in 1776 | |
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| Nixon Goes to the Mountain | |
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| How to Cure a Hangover | |
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| Francs and Beans | |
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| How to Argue Effectively | |
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| Spring Before Swine | |
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| How to Keep the IRS from Finding Out You're Lying | |
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| Pithy into the Wind | |
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| The Hellfire Club | |
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| You're Never Too Young to Aim High | |
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| I Ate Breakfast and Lived | |
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| Pardon My French | |
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| Why Not the Worst? | |
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| Crime | |
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| Chicago Gang War | |
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| Murder in the Worst Degree | |
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| Waiting for Lepke | |
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| Marvin the Torch | |
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| Breslin to .44 Killer: Give Up Now! | |
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| Head in a Box | |
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| A Woman Burned While Police Had Their Danish | |
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| Etiquette at a Crime Scene | |
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| Lucy's Blue Light | |
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| Steak Tips to Die For | |
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| New Land, Sad Story | |
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| A Bullet's Impact | |
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| Civil Rights & Civil Liberties | |
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| The Destiny of Colored Americans | |
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| To an Anxious Friend | |
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| A Fine Lesson for the Whole Nation | |
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| Rebellion in Connecticut | |
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| There Ought to Be a Law | |
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| Free Speech Is Worth the Risk | |
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| The Wrong Man | |
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| Faubus and Little Rock: Scars Are for the Young | |
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| He Went All the Way | |
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| A Flower for the Graves | |
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| Marching to Montgomery | |
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| Are the Rioters Racists? | |
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| The Power of One | |
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| Out of the Closet and Open to Legal Attack | |
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| Strangling the NAACP | |
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| Coming Out Against Cultural Pollution | |
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| Living Proof of Immigration's Marvelousness | |
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| A Path Beyond Grievance | |
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| Local Voices | |
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| She Bids Farewell to New York | |
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| The History of Our Late War | |
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| Postscripts | |
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| Don Quixote and His Last Windmill | |
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| About New York | |
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| Ah, San Francisco | |
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| Picasso and the Cultural Rebirth of Chicago | |
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| A not-so-classic Christmas story about a not-so-silent day in Pershing Square | |
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| Lubbock: "Her Teeth Are Stained, But Her Heart Is Pure" | |
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| True Confessions | |
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| Moneylender Jasper Speciale Last of a Different Breed | |
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| A Sprig of Verbena and the Gifts of a Great Teacher | |
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| Hard Times | |
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| The Death of Frankie Jerome | |
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| Migration Workers Take Lots of Abuse | |
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| To First and Last Things | |
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| Death in Emergency Room One | |
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| It's an Honor | |
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| Two Minutes to Midnight: The Very Last Hurrah | |
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| On Losing a Friend | |
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| If You're Expecting One-Liners | |
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| "Are You John Lennon?" | |
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| A Short Story About the Vietnam War Memorial | |
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| A Fool's Errand | |
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| His Delicious, Mansard | |
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| Open Letter to America | |
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| Farewells | |
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| Mary White | |
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| American Mussolini | |
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| Amelia Earhart | |
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| FDR: A Great Man Passes By | |
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| Babe Ruth: Game Called | |
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| The Ernest Hemingway I Knew | |
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| There Was Only One Casey | |
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| Daley Embodied Chicago | |
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| John Wayne's True Grit | |
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| She Said Goodby with Charm | |
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| King of Cool | |
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| Reagan: An Optimist's Legacy | |
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| A Mother's Love, Clarified | |
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| The Pursuit of Happiness | |
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| Advice from Poor Richard's Almanack | |
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| Yes, Virginia-There Is a Santa Claus | |
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| It's What the Home Folks Think of You That Really Counts | |
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| Magnificent Mammon | |
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| Myriad-Minded Us | |
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| Even to Judas | |
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| The Kicks | |
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| When God Created Fathers | |
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| When God Created Mothers | |
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| Memories of Leaner Times Fed by Image of Hungry Bum | |
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| The Days of Gilded Rigatoni | |
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| Jon Will's Aptitudes | |
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| Advice, Like Youth, Probably Wasted on the Young | |
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| The Halloween of My Dreams | |
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| Man of the Streets, in Three Suites | |
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| 45 Life Lessons-and Five to Grow On | |
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| To Old Times | |
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| About the Columnists | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Permissions | |
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| About the Editors | |