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I can’t help but include one more excerpt. It’s the last paragraph of the review:
Knuth has shown us here how to program intelligibly, but not wisely. I buy the discipline. I do not buy the result. He has fashioned a sort of industrial-strength Fabergé egg—intricate, wonderfully worked, refined beyond all ordinary desires, a museum piece from the start.
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Illinois Court Reverses Conviction of Man Jailed in Rape-Murder - NYTimes.com
In an opinion that harshly criticizes the tactics of the police and prosecutors, an Illinois appellate court on Friday night reversed the conviction of Juan Rivera, who has spent 19 years in jail for the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old baby sitter in a suburb of Chicago.
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Mr. Rivera, who is 39 and serving a life sentence, has been convicted three times for killing the sitter, Holly Staker, based on the strength of a confession that was obtained after four days of questioning. There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime, which occurred in Waukegan, Ill., and DNA testing in 2005 excluded him as the source of sperm found in Holly’s body. -
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Medical Marijuana and the Memory of One High Day - NYTimes.com
WHEN my mother-in-law was in the final, harrowing throes of pancreatic cancer, she had only one good day, and that was the day she smoked pot.
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So I was heartened when, at the end of last month, the governors of Washington and Rhode Island petitioned the Obama administration to classify marijuana as a drug that could be prescribed and distributed for medical use. While medical marijuana is legal in 16 states, it is still outlawed under federal law. -
One of the interesting things about the increasingly measured world of journalism is that new and surprising statistics are emerging about what kind of writing and writers are the stickiest.
Read It Later, the Web service that allows surfers to hit a button and save an article for future consumption, has been around since 2007, but it has really gained traction with the advent of tablets. Amid the hurly-burly of daytime activity, many readers don’t have time to devote to long stories, but devices like the iPad are ideal for leaning back and taking in something glorious, at one’s leisure. Read It Later offers a one-click way to save articles that might otherwise become lost and never read. Nate Weiner, the founder of Read It Later, wrote a post this year that noted that people were time-shifting content to later in the day, programming their evening hours with long-form material.
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