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Remember the Pollard case back in 1985? Even left-wing papers like the New York Times carried that story, Ms. Tarnow.”
Thomas Pynchon • Bleeding Edge
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
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Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Bill Walsh (who I’ve described exclusively as my personal hero since first picking up a copy of his essential text The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
John Zogby, the successful pollster, was completely, utterly wrong about Al Gore in Florida. By ten points. And he was wrong about John Kerry, and wrong about his prediction for the New Hampshire primaries in 2008. But notice that I said “successful pollster,” not “disgraced pollster.” If he wasn’t willing to be wrong, he’d be unable to be right as
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