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GARRISON KEILLOR
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Just follow the map
The cure for nostalgia is to read history, and the cure for holiday sentimentality is to listen for twenty-five minutes to an old friend telling you in a deep mournful voice how desolate his life feels to him right now with the air full of sugar and spice and musical bonhomie and him stranded on an iceberg, feeling unloved, wanting to run away and start over somewhere else, and what did I think he should do?
Political violence gets a lot of encouragement
My phone rang in the early morning hours on Dec. 27. It was my colleague Carol Cizauskas. "Benazir Bhutto was killed about an hour ago," she said.
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