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Confessions Of A Former Dead-Ender

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BY FROMA HARROP Bernie Sanders is clearly winding down his campaign for the Democratic nomination. In speeches and interviews over the weekend, he started turning his lance away from Hillary Clinton and toward Donald Trump. Though most of his supporters say they will make the transition to Clinton, a sizable minority – 28%, according to […]

Oklahoma Jenga

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BY DAVID PERRYMAN Jenga is a game played with 54 wooden rectangular blocks. Each block is three times as long as its width and one...

Crying ‘Rape,’ Trump? Unseal Your Divorce Records

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BY JOE CONASON Evidently Donald Trump believes his campaign can accomplish with an Internet video what Kenneth Starr failed to do with $50 million and a platoon of private detectives and FBI agents: Bring down Bill and Hillary Clinton by dredging them through moldy muck. Somehow he doesn’t seem to understand his own vulnerability on […]

Actors And Demagogues

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BY SHARON MARTIN Because the people who benefitted from the demotion of the middle class have kept the legend alive, there are plenty who still...

Arithmetic

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH Math was actually my best subject, until seventh grade, when I was the only girl on the math team: As if it were on the intercom, I heard loud and clear that girls weren’t supposed to be good at math. But today I’m still proficient enough to figure out how to add […]