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Remembering Tony Judt

Tony Judt, the British historian and social critic, died last Friday at 62 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.Although it left him nearly paralyzed,...

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Word of the Day: Agastopia

(n.); admiration of a particular part of the bodyALS constitutes progressive imprisonment without parole. First you lose the use of a digit or two; then a limb; then and almost inevitably, all...

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Vocabulary Lessons in Bucharest

The day my “teach yourself Romanian” book and CD arrived in the mail it was late August and I was living with my parents in Montreal for the summer. I was thirty-two years old, engaged in heavy...

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