The New Yorker, 2005-05-30

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"McCain's Party" / Connie Bruck
__ someone so competitive that he didn't speak to his best friend in prison for days after losing to him in a bridge game
__ 'It was easy at the intellectual level - lots of things are easy at that level -'
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"Carpe Noctem" / Arthur Krystal
__ It seems that any noun in the dictionary can be tricked out as a book these days.
__ It follows, then, as the night the day, that the night should have its own day.
__ It's the London street gang in 1600s, not the noble Trojan, to which we owe the verb "to hector."
__ Ekirch supplied enough corroboration regarding the first and second snoozes to make segmented sleep seem like one of those customs, such as bundling and dog-baiting, which simply disappeared.
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"Dutch wives" that once comforted sailors at sea
Ian Frazier: 'bakingly inflamed' 
Hilton Als: 'a fluttery imagination'
Oscar Wilde: 'Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.'
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One rampaging Gozilla to the other: "Remember that time you made me laugh and people came out of my nose?"

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