Klosterman seeks meaning in the banal
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Chuck Klosterman is flabbergasted that some consider him &#151; like many of his subjects &#151; a celebrity.
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It is difficult to square the outrageous Rory Sabbatini with the PGA Tourâs conservative khakiklatsch of players with IIIâs after their names.
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Two old sayings are colliding in the presidential campaign, and there's some truth to both of them. Politics is dirty. Midwesterners are nice.
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Wallace Shawnâs monologue on egoism and materialism would cut deeper into the consciousness of its well-meaning, liberally inclined audience if it were shorter.
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The line between mediocrity and parity is blurring nightl in the N.B.A.Âs Eastern Conference. Joe Dumars, the Detroit PistonsÂ president, coined a word to explain the trend: paridocrity.
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By Karen Meiman  Jeannine Otte Kreinbrink is an archaeologist  --  an occupation often dressed up with stuffy academic definitions about journeys to the past to examine cultures, how they created our destiny and defined the society we are today.
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Those in the know consider Jan Svankmajer's grotesqueries to be classic filmmaking. Yet he remains largely unknown outside Eastern Europe. Maybe it's time to discover the man and his work. By Jason Silverman.
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(Note language in final paragraph)     By Brad Dorfman
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The sociology of croquet might be seen as a microcosm of the deterioration of manners and civility in America.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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If you haven't heard it yet, you soon will.  Osamma has finally claimed responsiblity for 9/11.  I think, however, that it's a really bad sign. I think it means that all of the goodwill that flowed to the US In sympathy for the attack has now been fully squandered -- and probably much more.
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Analysis: Socialist Strauss-Kahn is a widely admired economic manager. Better to have him in Washington than heading up the opposition in Paris
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The photo on the front page (Feb. 13) is Pulitzer quality. I suggest you nominate Mike Terry for that award. The photo has urgency, drama, composition and is alive with tense action. It is one of the best photos you have published.
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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Popular wisdom is often an oxymoron.
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How Lawrence Weiner transforms text into works of art.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer