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Asbestos
January 13, 2013
Knowing (as John did) nothing of the way men act when men are roused from lethargy, and having nothing (as John had) to say to those he saw were starving just as he starved, John was like a workhorse. Day by day he saw his sweat cement the granite tower (the edifice his bone had ...

On Deadlier Ground
When the old Spy magazine folded in 1994, it left Hollywood columnist Celia Brady temporarily out of work. Before it was revived later that year, she and I briefly planned to launch an eight or twelve page newsletter like the ones investment counselors sell for $300 a year to ...