The New Yorker, 2006-05-26

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"Dept. of Rehabilitation: Big Houses" / Kate Julian
    "When it was a jail, they didn't even care about the park views. It was all crazy!"

"The Ice Renaissance" / Elif Batuman
    Determined-looking children climbed the staircase built into the (ice) elephant's back, sat approximately where the Persian soldier used to sit, and slid down. Could there be a better mascot than this elephant for the persistence and mutability of cultural memory?

"Ruffled Feathers" / John Seabrook
__ Rothschild, sixty-three at the time, sold the birds for two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, in order to help pay off a peeress who was blackmailing him over an old affair by threatening to tell his mother.
__ (Meinertzhagen) also studied ornithology, using calibration instruments at anti-aircraft gun stations to calculate the speed and altitude of birds.
Isle of Rum,  (another close reader)

"Blood and Paint" / John Updike
    the exile's significant artistic advantage of enhancement through distance, isolating his homeland from the eroding clutter of ongoing experience.

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