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“I was all, like—awugh.”

I heard that conversation yesterday at a restaurant where I was having lunch. Two women sat together at a table talking on their cell phones. Presumably, they were talking not…
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What is the worst crime?

Depends on what you mean by worst. If it means what most of it think it means---individual agony and suffering---then the culprits for worst are obvious: murder, torture and other…
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Classical music is dying

That's the sort of headline you see from time to time in places like Arts & Letters Daily and the arts sections of major newspapers. Invariably, what follows a few…