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		<title>The Existential Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was waiting for a train, and idly watching a young Asian woman whose gaze was intently fixed on the station platform. She forced me to look at the platform too, which was a perfectly ordinary slab of filthy concrete covered in squashed chewing gum, and to remember all the other platforms, sidewalks, stairs, floors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English as She is Spoke</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching English is a noble occupation, although it’s a pity that so many students arrive in college requiring this service. In the ancient days when I was at university the very fact of gaining admission guaranteed that you could write and speak your own language (and one or two others).  Now most universities have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only person who has problems these days with writing letters, and especially with beginnings and endings? The rules used to be extremely clear: you started a letter with a salutation: “Dear Mr. Jones,” “Dear John,” “My Dear John,” or “Dearest Emily, don’t let John see this letter,” according to the degree of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slip Sliding Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Olympic Winter Games monopolize our television screens I try hard to understand what all the fuss is about. Each year I fail, and put on a DVD showing people having a pleasant time in a warm climate.
Let me admit that I’m one of those people, and I imagine our name is Legion, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinner for Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown to February 14 is a difficult time for a man. He must suffer the embarrassment of buying heart shaped boxes of chocolates, the pain of ordering flowers at extortionate prices, the mental agony of trying to find a card that doesn&#8217;t literally make him nauseous, and above all he must reserve that restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We were in Washington DC for a couple of days last week. It was personal business. The President hasn’t called me in to be a special adviser yet, although I live in hope.
I’ve been to Washington many times over the years, but I never feel comfortable there. The architecture is too monumental, too reminiscent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valediction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was composed for a collection of writings from the Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009.
It was hard to say a final farewell to Iowa City. Each summer for at least a dozen years I have packed my carry-on and laptop and come here for a week or two to teach at the Summer Writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Worries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been a splendid century so far for people who like to worry, and for those who make money out of the worrying habit. Sales of gas masks, antibiotics, concrete bunkers, guns, tranquilizers and lucky charms have reached all time highs.
The interesting thing, at least to me, is that most people have carried on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February 24, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Classical DJ &#8211; talk about music and Public Radio. 12.00 noon, First Presbyterian Church, 330, Main Street, Northport, Long Island. 
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		<title>March 21, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tale of Two French Villages (illustrated talk)
Sunday afternoon at Cutchogue-New Suffolk Library, Cutchogue, Long Island. 2 p.m. Details : 631-734-6360.
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