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The New York Review of Books
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By Paula FoxA Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis, with an introduction by Jonathan LethemOne Manhattan mid-morning in the spring of 1967, I heard the crack of a gun going off below, along the broad reach of Central Park West. I jumped up from the table where I was working on my second novel and looked down five stories to the street, on the other side of which breathed the quiet greenery of Central Par...
11-13
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The New York Review of Books
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By Robert MalleyThe idea of Israeli-Palestinian partition, of a two-state solution, has a singular pedigree. It has been proposed for at least eight decades. Jews first accepted it as Palestinians recoiled; by the time Palestinians warmed to the notion in the late 1980s, Israelis had turned their backs. Still, its proponents manage to portray it as fresh, new, and capable of leading to peace. Inte...
11-10
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The New York Review of Books
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By Timothy Garton AshIn the autumn of 1989, the term 'velvet revolution' was coined to describe a peaceful, theatrical, negotiated regime change in a small Central European state that no longer exists. So far as I have been able to establish, the phrase was first used by Western journalists and subsequently taken up by Vclav Havel and other Czech and Slovak opposition leaders. This seductive label...
11-10
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The New York Review of Books
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By Tim FlanneryThe Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James LovelockThe Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter WardJames Lovelock: In Search of Gaia by John Gribbin and Mary GribbinThe idea that Earth is a living thing goes back at least as far as Plato, who according to Francis Bacon believed that the planet 'was one entire, perfect, living creature.' But...
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