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He says repealing the health law would top his priority list if he controls the Senate in 2013.

They could stay in and reap some extra benefits.

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The veteran congressman might be the winner in New York’s 13th District, but no one really knows.

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“His eye is on the sparrow/ and I know He watches me,” sings R.

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Quick word-association test: What do you think of when you hear the name John Cage?

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As prophetic an instrument as it can be, the novel is rarely predictive , in a straightforward, short-range, weather-forecast sense. The oracular nightmare ( 1984 ), the visionary comedy ( Yellow Dog )—these tend to fulfill themselves in the imagination, not in actuality. To this broad rule Raymond Kennedy’s Ride a Cockhorse , first published in 1991 and recently reissued by New York Review Books, is a fantastic, florid exception.

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Imagine the following scenario. You—and in this scenario “you” are a celebrated young writer who just so happens to be a woman—have written your latest novel off-recipe. You never bothered with the conventions of plot, climax, dénouement.

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Of all the animals you might choose to fight crime, a cat would seem the least promising. Cats, unlike dogs, are not ranged on the side of order against chaos . They are not motivated by simple human moralities, by universalized appeals to the superego such as “good cat” or “bad cat,” by guilt culture or shame culture.

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I’m Russian. A proud U.S

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Gigi Levangie would be the perfect name—so mellifluous, such harkening to Collette’s courtesan —for a heroine in a Gigi Levangie Grazer novel. You pick up a novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer precisely because she added that final surname when she married hugely successful movie producer Brian Grazer

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