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Bill Millin, 88 – Piper Played on D-Day – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com

Lord Lovat replied: ‘Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.’

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Bobby Thomson, 86, Dies – Hit ‘Shot Heard Round the World’ – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com

‘Now it is done,’ Red Smith wrote in The New York Herald Tribune. ‘Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Only the utterly impossible, the … Continue reading

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Bernard Knox, 95, Classics Scholar, Dies – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com

God knows what the world would be like if we were all brought up on the stuff they’d like us to read.

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Financial Bill to Close the Regulator of a Fading Industry – NYTimes.com

Its time had come and we should not lament its passing.

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The Times/1882/News/Funeral of Charles Darwin – Wikisource

We are requested to state that the absence of the Vice-Chancellor and members of the Council of the Senate of the University of Cambridge from the funeral of the late Mr. Darwin was occasioned by the circumstance that it was … Continue reading

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Leading French Intellectual Shaped Modern Anthropology – WSJ.com

We live in a world where I feel out of place. The one that I knew, that I loved, had 1.5 billion inhabitants. The world today is made up of six billion humans. It is no longer mine”

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Alas

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W.H. Auden: 70 Years Ago Today

Via Grasping Reality with Both Hands W.H. Auden: 70 Years Ago Today September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of … Continue reading

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Weapons of Mass Confusion

The 2009 GAAP modifications generally would increase the amount of exposures recognized on banking organizations’ balance sheets. No, kidding, Sherlock.

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In memorium — Ted Kennedy, Bradenton, FL

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