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Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 12:25 PM ET

Who are these people?

Alex wept.

the breakfast table
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Upon Reading Gates' Holt ...

Posted Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 12:25 PM ET
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Jim Holt writes the "Egghead" column for Slate. He also writes for The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. Alexander Star is a writer who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. This fall, he will begin editing the "Ideas" section of the Boston Globe.
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