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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:59 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The story of the photograph that captured Boston's busing crisis.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The photograph that captured Boston's busing crisis: How it was taken, and why it still matters.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2188648/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Louis P. Masur</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:59 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>I was in that 9/11 photo Frank Rich wrote about. Here's what I think about his column.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Yesterday, Slate posted this piece criticizing Frank Rich's New York Times column about the 9/11 photo shown here. The picture was taken by Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker on the afternoon of 9/11. Calling the image "shocking," Rich suggested that the five New Yorkers were "relaxing" and were already "mov[ing] on" from the attacks. Slate's David Plotz disputed that characterization of the picture, arguing that the subjects had almost certainly gathered to discuss the attacks and to find solace in others' company. Rather than showing callousness, as Rich suggested, it depicted civic engagement. But since neither Rich nor Plotz knew exactly what the five New Yorkers in the photo were doing or thinking, we invited them to contact Slate and tell us.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2149578/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:30:14 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>America's love for Barbaro.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  After the breakdown of Barbaro in the Preakness Stakes the other week, an astounding outpouring of emotion deluged the pages of newspapers and newsmagazines across the country. "Brave Barbaro, His Owners Must Love Him," proclaimed the Wall Street Journal. "Now's a Time for Healing, for Barbaro and for Matz," noted the New York Times, staunchly. An op-ed writer for the Times offered up a ponderous, if accurate, rationale for why Americans feel so strongly about a horse most had never heard of until a few weeks earlier: Horseracing is dangerous, and so we feel cruel when these "wordless creatures" hurt themselves for our entertainment. Well, yes. But horses—even famous horses, like Go for Wand—break down all the time while racing. What that columnist and other essayists have failed to answer is a deeper question: Why this horse, and why with this much feeling?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2142764/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Meghan O'Rourke</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 1 Jun 2006 11:02:09 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How Cinderella Man sucker punches the Jewish boxer Max Baer.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Attentive viewers of the climactic fight of Cinderella Man, Ron Howard's Depression-era crowd-pleaser, will notice a Star of David on the red trunks of Max Baer, the lethal opponent of Jim "Cinderella Man" Braddock. The star is significantly less prominent than the one that the real Baer wore in the 1935 fight. It's no surprise that Howard would obscure this detail, as it would complicate his film's Rocky-meets-Seabiscuit narrative. What's funny, and ironic, is that by downplaying Baer's Star of David, Howard may be making an accurate historical comment: Baer was the only self-proclaimed Jew to ever claim the heavyweight crown. But was he really even Jewish?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2120151/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8286" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8286" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>David Fellerath</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:51:22 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Towering Babel</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Translating one of Isaac Babel's stories is no easy task. Translating all of them is less a task than a calling. So while neat, two-volume editions of Babel's collected works have circulated in Russia since the waning days of Perestroika, English speakers have had to stitch together more than a dozen translations, some out of print since the 1930s, to get a full sense of his range. The discrepancy between Babel's influence and the availability of his work has always been striking.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2057508/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Alex Abramovich</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:50:14 EST</pubDate>
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