Many of you are reading this column in the old-fashioned newspaper in its crinkly and foldable format. Others are reading this on a hard-edged inflexible digital device via the Internet. (Today)
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A bystander reads graffiti on the wall of a school in Glendale, N.Y., on Sept. 14, 1959, after black students were transferred from schools in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn to the predominantly white Queens school.
In the introduction to his 1916 masterwork, "The Passing of the Great Race," Madison Grant counseled his contemporaries to repudiate their pledge to "acknowledge no distinction in race, creed, or (Today)
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An unidentified man test drives a Yugo on the streets of Brockton, Mass. in this Aug. 27, 1985 photo.
The subtitle's a tease, a catchy one. (Today)
It's been a good harvest for American short stories lately, as this trio demonstrates. (Today)
A list of the best-selling fiction and nonfiction books. (Today)