The New Yorker, 2006-01-23,30 a

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"Gold Star Dept: Study Buddy" / Ben McGrath
    Yasmin dutifully typed an entry into her tutor's log: "We started brainstorming a story about passion."

"Shouts & Murmurs: Let's Talk About My New Movie" / Larry Doyle
    I hesitate to call it a remake, .. because what I think we're doing here is not so much remaking or reimagining as reimagineering.

"The Lottery" / Dan Baum

__ The lottery began - in the name of diversity - as a way to bring more white people to America. It was, so to speak, a correction to a correction to a correction.
__ Andorra, Liechtenstein, the Pacific island nation of Niue, and the French Southern and Antarctic Territories each had one.
__ He emigrated, essentially, to be part of a society in which the public sector is respected.

"On Television: Across the Universe" / Nancy Franklin
    If you switch to the term “speculative fiction,” which many sci-fi writers prefer, the genre seems more interesting. In fact, the genre is so capacious that it’s not even very useful to call it a genre—at least, not as a put-down or a comment on its limitations.

"Life In Nevada"
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