New York’s Other Skyline — Old-School Water Towers
Squint a little and the sleek modern cityscape reveals old-fashioned water towers in use on most buildings over six stories. On the ground, New…
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A Green Ranch — Run By Cowboys
TWO MILE RANCH, ARIZ. — John Heyneman has a problem. It’s late January, and some of his cows are missing. They’re stuck on the…
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What You Hear If You Make a Point of Eavesdropping in New York
On a scorching September afternoon, Morgan Friedman, semi-professional wanderer, must stop. We’ve been moseying through Brooklyn neighborhoods for nearly two hours, because I wanted…
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San Quentin’s Self-Rehab: Healing on the Inside
SAN QUENTIN, CALIF. — When he stands, Gerry Harris towers over everyone in the room. He’s bald, with a salt-and-pepper beard that climbs to…
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There’s Magic in Las Vegas’ Rank and File Talent
LAS VEGAS — Hands are a strange thing to dwell on, but Mat Black’s demand notice. He has long, slender fingers with short, well-kept…
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The Day A Subway Hero’s Year of Swag Comes to An End
NEW YORK — Being a hero sometimes means, among other things, that commuting costs less. And so Wesley Autrey Sr. – “Subway Hero,” says…
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Meet Lee Hamilton, Washington’s Bipartisan Power Broker
WASHINGTON — Political crises are supposed to be a thing of the past for Lee Hamilton. Lately – most notably as vice-chair of the…
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World Artists Use Biography To Move CDs
It could have been your average reggae concert: undulating vocals, punctuated keyboard riffs, rhythms that make you want to roll your hips. But these…
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The Worst Book on Female Writers Ever Written (Maybe)
I represent half of Maureen Adams’s likely audience for Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton…
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After a certain point, and if you’re the creative sort, the only way to engage with a myth, perhaps, is to rewrite it.
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