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		<title>How Do Professors Think? More Crisis in the Humanities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the bottom of her n+1 review of Michele Lamont’s How Professors Think, Amanda Claybaugh laments that Lamont “fails” to answer the promise of her book’s title. Claybaugh appears to buy into the title’s assumption, that professors think differently than others. But why would professors think any differently than anyone else? Indeed, from the professor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=802&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where jazz and literature get encaged</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Believer music issue (July/August 09) arrived yesterday, and there’s a perceptive interview with jazz guitarist Pat Martino:
“BLVR: What do you think jazz’s place in American culture is today?”
“PM: The only thing I can be definitive with is an example. Take the students of jazz in our conservatories and universities. They’re studying harmony and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=798&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking E. B. White When He&#8217;s Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To a neighborly inquiry, yes, we saw the vicious attack on the venerable E. B. White, first in the Chronicle, then, with several bystanders jumping on for a kick or two, in the Times. We first became aware of Pullum at Emdashes, where, we thought, Martin Schneider – omitting needless words – handled the matter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=729&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A word of one&#8217;s own</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comfortably ensconced in our reading lair, hidden behind the arras of the Dec. 8 New Yorker, perusing the cartoons, time passing easily, and find our Eric has been at work on his French, annotating the Mankoff cartoon caption “A la Recherche des Cheveux Perdus” (p. 68) with the translation “Remember Hair Lost.” 
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		<title>Correcting, Grading, and Commenting: Right, Wrong, and Indifferent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Louis Menand, in his review of Lynne Truss&#8217;s &#8220;Eats, Shoots &#38; Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation,&#8221; suspects &#8220;the whole thing might be a hoax.&#8221; (New Yorker, June 28, 2004.) Menand corrects with comments Truss&#8217;s misuse of commas: &#8220;Doubtful, distracting, and unwarranted commas turn up in front of restrictive phrases,&#8221; and elsewhere, while he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=32&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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