It isn’t much of a leap from Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” to the SAT cheating scandal at Great Neck High school.
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12/1/11
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Do your best not to get cancer in the autumn. Nature (falling leaves), the weather (chill winds) and the time change (failing light), all conspire to lend a poignancy to one’s days.
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11/25/11
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One of the rarely acknowledged advantages of our fast-approaching winter season is that people have to cover up parts of their bodies that are better left under wraps.
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11/17/11
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I promised myself I wouldn’t do it, but I did. When a friend mentioned that Ruth Madoff was doing an interview on “60 Minutes,” I felt disgusted with the fact that a once-distinguished news program would give her airtime.
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11/10/11
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We were kids ourselves — 24 years old — when our first child was born in 1971. What were they thinking when they let us take him home from the hospital?
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11/3/11
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It is Oct. 31,1951, a bitterly cold Halloween. My mother and I are walking home from the neighborhood bakery in the late afternoon, as the dimming rays of sunlight blink at me from between the stores along Merrick Road.
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10/27/11
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I am nothing if not trendy. On Oct. 7, I underwent surgery for breast cancer following a diagnosis two weeks earlier. It is, after all, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I wouldn’t think of having cancer any other time of the year.
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10/20/11
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And words can do a fair amount of damage, too. As we all know by now, Rick Perry’s presidential bid is in trouble because of a word painted on a rock outside his family’s hunting camp in Texas.
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10/13/11
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Women, I think, are particularly prone to cleaning binges. Periodically we feel possessed by an urge to sort, separate and toss.
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10/6/11
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I suppose that “God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world,” as Mr. Browning said, because Rosh Hashana falls on the perfect day this year. Last year the Jewish New Year began while beach chairs still sat on the sand.
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9/29/11
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