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		<title>Why Is n+1 So Annoying?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY DOLORES PALLAS &#160; This is a difficult question to answer, because a rational approach leads clearly to the conclusion that n+1 is not, or at the very least should not, be very annoying at all.  And yet the emotional thrust behind that which leads to this question, the inexorable charge, electric and fierce, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sopaltryandbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5932837&amp;post=55&amp;subd=sopaltryandbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Realistic Cynicism, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY PER GIOTTO     In the January 18th issue of the New York Times Magazine, photographer Nadav Kander provides two photographic contributions: one is a photo essay of Obama’s incoming cabinet while the other, documenting Washington landmarks, supplements an article by Matt Bai on the predictable and rapid diminishment of a president’s approval ratings soon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sopaltryandbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5932837&amp;post=43&amp;subd=sopaltryandbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Articulation of Mental Illness, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Francis Bacon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY FREEMAN BRANDYWINE   Several years ago, in an interview with the New York Times or the New Yorker or some other journalistic institution based out of New York, Tony Kushner said something to the effect of “The body betrays; the mind does not.”  He was reflecting upon his mother’s cancer specifically but related it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sopaltryandbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5932837&amp;post=40&amp;subd=sopaltryandbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Sontag is Down Like a Clown, Charlie Brown: As Close to a Blog Manifesto as We Can Summon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the somewhat seamy release of Susan Sontag’s journal and notebook entries, in the collection Reborn: Journals and Notebooks 1947-1963, comes what may be great relief among the many who cherish her work, and even among those who do not, over their respective – and likely quite similar – fears of inadequacy. She reveals herself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sopaltryandbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5932837&amp;post=38&amp;subd=sopaltryandbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Realistic Cynicism, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY DOLORES PALLAS   There seems to exist a trend among older, successful writers – particularly writers who have been successful since their youths, and successful in a variety of genres and media – to place an unqualified faith in the value of whatever thought happens to cross their minds, and, moreover, to find any of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sopaltryandbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5932837&amp;post=30&amp;subd=sopaltryandbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Static Fantasies of Salman Rushdie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY PER GIOTTO   One may, with little considerable effort, trace within the oeuvre of Salman Rushdie a near-encyclopedic effort to emblematize femininity through variously representative wiles and sentiments, to – through a thoroughly unmodern consideration of womanhood – position his female characters as stable proxies for ostensibly every single element comprising the breadth of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sopaltryandbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5932837&amp;post=11&amp;subd=sopaltryandbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Acquisition of Cultural Methods of Protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Muntadhar al-Zaidi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY FREEMAN BRANDYWINE   There is something a bit uncomfortable about how amused many people are by the recent “shoe-throwing” incident, in which Muntadhar al-Zaidi tossed his shoes at President Bush during a press conference in the Green Zone of Iraq in a gesture of condemnation.  The event has turned into an internet meme phenom, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sopaltryandbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5932837&amp;post=5&amp;subd=sopaltryandbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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