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As Tax Day Passes, the Tax Grope Begins
First comes Tax Day, then comes the Tax Grope.
Why Thatcher Wouldn’t Succeed in Our ‘Lean In’ Culture
There could never be another “Iron Lady.”
What Parents Don’t Know About Bowdoin
Alumni like to rant, especially conservative alumni. The disgruntled fellows (it’s usually a fellow) seize any chance for a complaint session alleging whatever errors the school is committing are somehow greater than errors it made in the 1980s, or even the raucous 1960s.
The Republicans’ Self-Defeating War on Eyeshades
What’s with the green eyeshades?
Gatsby, Galbraith and the Myth of Coolidge’s Crash
What’s next after the Oscars? More Gatsby, of course. “The Great Gatsby,” featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and coming in May, will be the fourth, or by some counts the fifth or sixth, movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about the illusion created by false wealth in the 1920s.
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