The New Yorker, 2005-06-05

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"ODD JOBS DEPT: Cookie Master" / Jeremy Olsham
__ Returning to from, he summarized the thrust of the book with two simple axioms. "Don't have too complicated a mind," he said. "Think in ten-word sentences."
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"Best In Class" / Margaret Talbot
__ Horace Mann, the education reformer, tried for a while to come up with a new name for "high school," reasoning that perhaps the phrase implied "superior and exclusive."
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"Last Words" / Elizabeth Kolbert
__ Thus, in Eyak, the question "are you going to keep tickling me in the face in the same spot repeatedly?" is rendered as one word.
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"Unmaking the World" / John Lahr
__ Pain unmakes the world. .. As Hilaire Belloc said, terror causes a sudden "paralysis of the soul"... A passion for life is replaced by a passion for ignorance.

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