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In the hit song “Some Enchanted Evening” from the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1949 musical “South Pacific,” which takes place during World War II, the French expatriate Emile sings of his love for Nellie, a young and naïve Navy nurse. The song is a general take on love and romance, of seeing a woman, a stranger,
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Those who refuse to govern themselves will be governed by others. This is one of the takeaway lessons from the recent elections, particularly in New York City. There a young and inexperienced pro-Islamist and democratic socialist won the mayoral election in part by promising voters goodies like free bus transportation, free childcare, some government grocery
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Moving day is fast approaching for me, and until yesterday I was fretting about logistics. Boxes for packing up my books have been hard to come by, and I was stressing over who I could ask to help with the actual move. One friend was available, but another is recovering from surgery, while my middle
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In Rebecca Serle’s novel “In Five Years,” narrator and protagonist Dannie Cohan follows the path she set for herself as an adolescent. She becomes a lawyer with no ambitions for the courtroom, tackling instead the crisp, clear language of the law and contracts. “It was like poetry, but poetry with outcome, poetry with concrete meaning—with
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