Editor's Letter
Editor's Letter
When did “politics” become a dirty word?
Editor's Letter 
In the Bronx, a bumpy season has been cushioned by nostalgia as the Yankees play their final games at Yankee Stadium before moving to a new stadium next year. A few miles south, in the Borough of Queens, a less-heralded stadium also faces demise.
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I remember the day my mother single-handedly ruined rock ’n’ roll for my brother and me.
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Thomas Jefferson may have impregnated one of his slaves. Warren Harding had liaisons with his mistress in an Oval Office closet. FDR’s mistress—one of two during his marriage—was with him when he died.
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“Time is but the stream I go fishing in,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. Apparently the guy didn’t commute. For the 125 million Americans who do, time is less an amiable stream than a daily tsunami threatening to overtake us as we hustle to work.
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Janet Jackson’s right breast was back in the news last week. It first achieved international infamy, of course, for being briefly exposed during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.
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TWA Flight 800 was just 16 minutes out of JFK Airport on a clear July night when a short circuit ignited the gasoline vapors in the center fuel tank, ripping the plane’s belly open and blowing off its nose and cockpit.
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As the foundations beneath the home-mortgage industry were eroding last week, I watched the Atlantic engage in give and take with the Jersey shore.
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It’s a Sunday morning Effron family tradition, and it even has a name—“foraging.”
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Michelle Obama is one accomplished woman. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, she’s worked for a top-notch law firm and for the city of Chicago. Now she’s a high-powered hospital executive, a firebrand on the stump, and a fixture of various magazines’ “Most Influential” lists—in short, she’s someone to be reckoned with. Why, then, does she need special protection from her critics? Ever since Michelle declared . . .
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I work in a big city, where the screams of a passing siren barely dent one’s consciousness and only the most sensational crimes make the local papers. Then there is The Gazette, the weekly newspaper that covers the small community in which I live. The village is only 30 miles north of Manhattan, but viewed through the prism of The Gazette, it might as well be on another planet . . .
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When I heard that Charlton Heston had died, I called my younger brother. We talked for several animated minutes about the brawny action star with whom we’d grown up—the jut-jawed monolith who survived an earthquake, single-handedly stood down a planet of apes, and slaughtered mutants by the bushel in The Omega Man. By the time I hung up, we were both bellowing, “Soylent Green is people!” What we didn’t talk about, though, was Heston’s real-life role as a conservative cultural warrior, his presidency of the NRA, or anything remotely having to do with his politics. Did we do ol’ Chuck a disservice? Or did we . . .
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The world is coming to an end. Chicken Little was correct about this, if a bit premature; the only relevant questions are how, and when. The current conventional wisdom is that Doomsday will occur no later than 2 billion years hence, when the sun expands, boils off the oceans, and turns our green planet into a charcoal briquette. But if we’re far less lucky, the End may come as soon as May, when a black hole created by scientists in Geneva, Switzerland, swallows you, me, and all 6.6 billion souls on the Earth in one big gulp. A scientific gadfly from Hawaii named Walter F. Wagner contends . . .
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Think about the upcoming Olympic Games in China, and you’re bound to think of Tibet. Pro-Tibetan activists have succeeded in making the Buddhist region, occupied by China since 1950, part of any conversation about the Beijing Olympics. Some of this global attention is the result of boycott calls, such as that by the actor Richard Gere, a prominent Buddhist activist. But most of it is the logical result of China’s heavy-handed response to the recent riots in Tibet. News that security services left monks lying dead in the streets simply makes bad publicity. World sympathy is on the side of the Tibetans. Far less attention is paid to the oppressed people who live . . .
