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Nicholas Lemann

Jane Austen Weekly: Mitt Romney Is No Mr. Darcy

Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 12.19.2012 | Books
Read More: David Brooks, Mr. Darcy, 2012 Presidential Election, Income Inequality, Jane Austen, Mitt Romney, Jane Austen Novels, Nicholas Lemann, Elizabeth Bennett, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney 47 Percent, Pride and Prejudice, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Elections 2012, Books News
Susan Celia Greenfield

How are Mitt Romney and Mr. Darcy similar? Let me count the ways.

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The New Neighborhood Is in the City

Jennifer Gennari | Posted 09.24.2011 | San Francisco
Read More: New Yorker, Neighborhoods, San Francisco, Mission District, Suburbs, Nicholas Lemann, Parenting, Facebook, Bay Area, San Francisco News
Jennifer Gennari

Suburbs are so twentieth century -- this is the metropolitan century in which large urban areas are flourishing economically and socially.

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Is America's Education System Really In Crisis?

newyorker.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: American Education, New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann, Education Crisis Overblow, College News

A hundred years ago, eight and a half per cent of American seventeen-year-olds had a high-school degree, and two per cent of twenty-three-year-olds ha...

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