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Jeff Wrangler:
How did we manage to get articles by my favorite Jill Lepore in two consecutive issues, May 4 and May 11?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 19, 2020, 10:03:43 am ---How did we manage to get articles by my favorite Jill Lepore in two consecutive issues, May 4 and May 11?
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For that matter, how does she manage to write them between writing books and being a history professor at Harvard and winning top awards like the Pulitzer and the National Book Award?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 19, 2020, 12:15:10 pm ---For that matter, how does she manage to write them between writing books and being a history professor at Harvard and winning top awards like the Pulitzer and the National Book Award?
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Two words: Graduate assistants. ;D
But, yeah, I have no idea how she does it. ???
Meanwhile, I'm in the midst of Evan Osnos' May 11 article about the support for the Great Orange Satan among the wealthy elites of Greenwich, Connecticut. I'm not surprised, considering how much money the stinking rich Koch brothers have poured into conservative political causes that would benefit the stinking rich Koch brothers. But Osnos is explaining a lot. I'd say these people sold their souls, but I think at least some of them had no souls to sell in the first place.
Front-Ranger:
From reading this week's Letters, it appears that the Sesame Street people did not think very highly of her article.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 20, 2020, 01:45:29 pm ---From reading this week's Letters, it appears that the Sesame Street people did not think very highly of her article.
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She was certainly very critical at the end of the article. I was surprised. But then, I was too old for Sesame Street when it began and have no children, so pretty much all I knew about the show was Jim Henson's involvement and the Muppet characters that have become a part of the popular culture. I found the early history of the show, how it came about to be, quite interesting.
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