Cloud Of Smoke: Inside Romney's Work For Big Tobacco

WASHINGTON -- As the Soviet Union splintered in the early-1990s, Sushovan Ghosh packed his colleagues into a van and chugged across the collapsing nation, hitting depressed towns and famished cities,…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8245 words)

Public Money Finds Back Door to Private Schools

THE MONEY FINDS A HOME Hadyn Packer, 8, at a check presentation at St. John Neumann Regional, a Catholic school in Williamsport, Pa. When the Georgia legislature passed a private school scholarship…
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (653 words)

Clinging to Guns and Religion: Observations from 20 Years of Rural Iowa Life

When Obama made his controversial comments, he was talking about Iowa's less populated expanses -- the hamlets that will shape the contours of the GOP contest IOWA CITY -- On January 3, Iowans will…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1047 words)
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Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?

Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon's mighty projects for remodelling the religion and government of his empire, the ironical satirist, Sylvain Marechal,…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2426 words)
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The Evolution of Ape-Face Johnson

Three things informed me about my physical appearance when I was a little girl. First, my mother used to grab my ponytail and, observing how thick it was, say,"Thees ee' wha' they call een Ecuador…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4048 words)
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The Girl from Trails End

Three teenagers were clustered around the cell phone, heads almost touching as they peered at the video. "Eww...that's nasty."…
SOURCE:www.gq.com
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1825 words)

Leap of Faith

AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Aug. 15, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (928 words)
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