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Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:00 AM

High standards at the Washington Post Op-Ed page

A white pride advocate is invited to argue that Barack Obama and John Edwards are girly gays.
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  • Sunday, May 18, 2008 06:52 AM

    Perhaps they are in despair at ever equalling Hannah Arendt's writing skills

    I thought I was pretty blasé about english prose, but every time I open "The Origins of Totalitarianism" she blows me away all over again, with sentences like "As long as defamed peoples and classes exist, parvenu- and pariah-qualities will be produced anew by each generation with incomparable monotony, in Jewish society and everywhere else."

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