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Yes, I had also noticed the ever-changing, fiery hues of Mr. Dershowitz's aging mane. But of course I agree with you that he's one of God's great individual creations and a model to us all.
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StumbleUponI have a story idea for Eliza Truitt, our editor. (This is just to check if she actually reads these dispatches.) She wrote an interesting article on best-seller lists for Slate the other day; now a friend turns me on to the astonishingly stupid Modern Library Readers Pollof the 100 best novels in the English language. This is more or less a follow-on, and a corporate apology for, the astonishingly stupid Modern Library Board's selection of the 100 best novels that received so much attention a few weeks ago.
The conceit of course, is that we are hearing the vox populi in these latest selections. But because it is a web-based "poll," it appears to be subject to egregious fraud. Either that, or they gave Ayn Rand groupie Alan Greenspan 3 million votes. That's right, the top four novels all hail from A.R.: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living, and Anthem. L. Ron Hubbard's works occupy numbers 10 and 12. Draw your own conclusions.
Random House isn't returning my phone calls, so I thought a dose of public ridicule might perk things up.
Did they assign Ulysses at Brandeis? I bet they did.
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