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My job interview with Glenn Beck
The messiah, back in the day: My job interview with Glenn Beck
All I wanted was a more stimulating job. How was I to know that the humorless manic-depressive who interviewed me would soon be acclaimed by millions of Americans as a modern messiah?
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My Christmas shopping list
Santa darling: What a woman really needs for Christmas
It's amazing, the things I never knew I needed until the December Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue arrived in my mail. Now I'm ready to give Santa my Christmas wish list. For good girls only, of course.
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My Greco-Roman Christmas
It's beginning to look a lot like Charybdis
Christmas is a tough time for Jews, as my ancestors and I can personally attest. But suppose that 2,000 years ago Christianity had flamed out and worship of Zeus had prevailed?
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A Christmas Village at City Hall?
It takes a Christmas Village, or: Church and state, perfect together
A Christmas Village was a clever marketing idea in 15th-Century Deutschland. But what is a medieval German shopping mall doing on the property of 21st-Century American taxpayers?
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Literature's global future
The global future of literature, or: Why can't humanists be more humane?
Here we have a new subgenre of what I call International English: Africans interacting with white and black Americans. The way Mengestu weaves writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson and Tocqueville into his narratives of isolation and conflict is astonishing.
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Changing habits: What I learned about nuns
Forbidden fruit: My fantasy life among the nuns
As a suburban Catholic grade school student, my meager education in the mysteries of the opposite sex came by watching— and fantasizing about— nuns.
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Economic lessons from the Far East
I have seen the future, and it's in the Far East
If today's recession is a global crisis, why do the Taiwanese and Japanese seem less traumatized than we Americans? As I've learned from personal experience, they've learned how to adjust their behavior in the face of adversity.
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My father's clothes
What remains of my father
I'm sure this gesture has been repeated a million times by a million women in mourning: a father's coats and shirts and ties and hats, handed over to an uncle or a brother.
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My cancer could be prevented
Me, Mike and a certain cancer
Mike Douglas and I are both battling Stage 4 head and neck cancer. We share something else in common as well: An awareness that this particular cancer, at least, could be prevented.
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Mighty Ryan has struck out
The five stages of baseball grief
Depressed because the Phillies failed to win their third consecutive National League pennant? Broad Street Review's sports therapist will see you now.
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