Fugu
Fugu is a globefish or blowfish from the family tetraodontidae. When these fish swell up, they puff their bodies into a nearly square shape. They are cultivated in cages in the sea off the coast ...
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If Excelsior Racing doesn’t win a multibillion dollar concession from the state to run the gambling operations at New York’s major horse-racing venues, it won’t be for lack of pol...
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Joe Bieger walked out his front door with his two dogs one morning last fall a beloved husband, father, grandfather and assistant high school athletic director. Minutes later, all of that, indeed, ...
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Little Fugue, by Robert Anderson. Ballantine, 384 pages, $24.95.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the death of a beautiful woman "is the most poetical topic in the world." There could hardly be a less w...
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Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany became the first couple not representing Russia in more than a decade to capture the pairs title at the European Figure Skating Championships on Wedne...
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He's flipped through the photographs, listened to the stories, read through all the letters. But more than a month after he left his home in Washington and woke up in Denver wit...
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MERE ANARCHYBy Woody Allen Random House, 160 pages, $21.95
THE INSANITY DEFENSE: THE COMPLETE PROSE By Woody Allen Random House, 342 pages, $15.95
Like every other kind of writer, humorists go ...
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INNER WORKINGS: LITERARY ESSAYS 2000-2005By J.M. Coetzee Viking, 304 pages, $25.95
Each of the 21 essays included in Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 is named for the author whose wo...
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Dear Margo: Not many people believe me when I tell them why I'm going through a divorce. "Clara," my wife of five years, with whom I have three children, is leaving me for an inm...
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In Der Nächste Zug (The Next Move/The Next Draw) (2007), one of a suite of paintings on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, two dandies sit and smoke in the foreground, momentarily l...
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On His Plans for The Wall Street Journal:
“We have no plans to change anything in the editorial.”
On Murdoch the Reader:
“[The Wall Street Journal] is absolutely my first paper, t...
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Fugu
Fugue for Tinhorns: Richard Fields Had Big Bet on Spitzer
