In a surprise turnabout, the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction was Mitt Romney. Or at least he should have been.
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4/26/12
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On a recent family vacation I noticed that the only kids who played harder than the little grandkids were the adult “kids.”
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4/19/12
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After the seven killings at a California college, after the heavy sadness of the Trayvon Martin shooting, after the fierce tornadoes in Dallas and the rising body count in Syria, I’d had enough.
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4/12/12
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It seems divinely appropriate when Christian and Jewish holidays coincide, but it doesn’t happen that often.
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4/5/12
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Social progress took a hit this month, especially for women and African-Americans.
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3/29/12
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Alas, Chicken Little may be right. A group calling itself Anonymous has posted its intention to shut down the Internet on March 31.
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3/22/12
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I told the waiter I wanted the ahi tuna medium rare.
He looked meaningfully into my eyes and said, “Awesome.”
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3/15/12
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On my last day of radiation, I drove up to the NYU Women’s Cancer Center and saw a man leaning against the front door, smoking.
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3/8/12
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If there’s one thing that gets a girl’s attention, it’s the sight of five middle-aged men discussing how to limit women’s reproductive freedom.
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3/1/12
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The first sound I heard this morning was my nerve-jangling alarm clock, waking me from a sweet slumber and reminding me that I had to teach a class in an hour.
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2/23/12
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