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Here is the Word file with Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance.”

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Interestingly, our new President says this essay is a big influence.  See if you can figure out why.

Is there anything left to say about Buffalo, New York, other than that it has sports teams?  This brief story in The Atlantic is a reminder that what was once the eighth-largest city in the country is rapidly dying.  It’s sad, really: a few years ago, my wife and I spent a little time there, and it had so much to offer (in spite of its weather) that one wonders how they lost it all.  Driving through there made me think about the process a major urban area goes through when it decays.  The city looked like it once housed a lot of life, but as the industries there continued to go south, downtown hollowed out more and more.  Buffalo could still be a great place to live, and whenever it’s mentioned, I can’t help but root for it a little, hoping that someday, a genius (or a corporation?) shows up and revives it.

An eighth-grade girl in Chicago wore both McCain and Obama shirts, with interesting results.

Part 1

Part 2

Really?

Malcolm Gladwell writes for The New Yorker, and he also has two (soon to be three) bestselling books.  His latest article (presumably an excerpt from his new book The Outliers) is about how a legendary Goldman Sachs executive may have benefited from his adverse background.

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