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							 Confused commenters have no clue as to the opportunities that await Palin — because few understand the extraordinary, multi-billion-dollar marketplace that has developed for movement conservatives. 
							
							 
						
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							   There was some in-office debate about reviewing the Friendly Toast in our "On the Cheap" column. After all, its menu of diner favorites, retro-'50s filler-uppers, and contemporary vegetarian options are pretty inexpensive. And their motto is "Great Food. Cheap."   
							
							 
						
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							  If there was ever any doubt that race and perception are intimately linked, the bizarre arrest of Harvard superstar Henry Louis Gates Jr. — which hit the news this past Monday — should dispel it once and for all.  
							
							 
						
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							 Reading on the beach is a rite of summer as treasured as slathering on globs of coconut oil and squatting in front of a tanning mirror. Of course, five out of five dermatologists recommend that you read this special collection of book excerpts indoors — but that’s where we decided to draw the line.  
							
							 
						
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							   They didn't teach genderfuck, iteration, or micropolitics when I was in college. But times have changed.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							 Confused commenters have no clue as to the opportunities that await Palin — because few understand the extraordinary, multi-billion-dollar marketplace that has developed for movement conservatives. 
							
							 
						
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							   In just over a week, the Brown University senior will batten down the hatch and take the submersible on its first major voyage: dropping into the murky depths of Massachusetts' Long Pond.   
							
							 
						
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							 Photos from the New England Sand Sculpture Festival 2009 at Revere Beach 
							
							 
						
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							  "I wanted longevity, even if it meant obscurity."  
							
							 
						
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							   Niagara Falls is a great, looming presence in David Lindsay-Abaire's  Wonder of the World , and the Theater Project delivers it, in the powerful white-noise rush of its crash, in ethereal shifting mists and haunting glacial-blue light, and in a rise of four tiered platforms hung with translucent, back-lit fringe.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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