September 2011
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Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread...
– George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”
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LOWELL SUN: State's income tax could decrease →
I realize there is a complete lack of “interesting” here, but it’s my first legitimate hard news clip in…oh. Wait. Ever.
So it goes up.
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The Phoenix: Where were you on September 10, 2001? →
bostonphoenix:
On September 10, 2001, Hurricane Erin was spiraling up the Eastern Seaboard. Thunderclouds rolled over Manhattan, and whitecaps pounded the Jersey shore. In Boston, the Red Sox–Yankees game was called off due to rain, depriving Roger Clemens of the opportunity to torment his old club. There was concern that the storm might veer inland, disrupting metropolitan New...
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It was a summer. A year later, there was another one. The world has lots of...
– Rob Sheffield, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.
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