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Elizabeth Benedict
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Losing Mum and Pup, A Liberal’s Guilty Pleasure
I wonder, when a humorist writes a book not intended for laughs. When, say, the very funny satirist, Christopher Buckley, writes a memoir – say, Losing Mum and Pup – about the deaths of his legendary parents in 2007 and…
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A Classical Music Summit with an Element of Speed Dating Thrown In: The YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Forget Ecclesiastes. There is something new under the sun–and it appeared, like a shower of shooting stars, on April 15 at Carnegie Hall, a place not known for wild innovation. While teabaggers across the land looked back on their day…