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  • Defining Decency Up: How to Repair Our Deviant Culture

    Defining Decency Up: How to Repair Our Deviant Culture2

    “A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction.” So stated New York State Supreme Court Justice Edwin Torres over 30 years ago in a private communication. From the bench, Judge Torres added this lament: “The slaughter of the innocent marches unabated: subway riders, bodega owners, cab drivers, babies; in laundromats, at

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  • On the ‘Times’ Machine: A Trip Into ‘The New York Times’ Past

    On the ‘Times’ Machine: A Trip Into ‘The New York Times’ Past1

    For my birthday this year, one of my sons gave me an unexpected gift. The brown box, rectangular and less than 2 inches wide, contained another slightly smaller box, black and classy, which in turn contained a complete and original copy of the Thursday, March 1, 1951, New York Times, the newspaper from the day

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