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Saturday, July 7, 2007

Some links of interest

Dartmouth alum Neel Shah ('05) in Glamour magazine?

"Brilliant though it was, The Sopranos moved in to a place in US culture that used to belong to prose fiction. John Freeman wonders whether they have killed it off forever"

And the comedy that is right-wing "theory": "An Anti-Progressive Syllabus"
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