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A store specializing in western clothes in Ahmedabad, India, has called itself Hitler and is using a swastika as a logo, totally unaware that it would create an international furor. One of the owner’s grandfather was so strict he was nicknamed Hitler, and the store was named after him. In that part of India Hitler…

It takes Eric, the mail carrier, an hour and a half each way to drive to work. He wishes he could instead spend that time with his family, and even though the drive is becoming expensive given the price of gas, he considers himself lucky. There are 6 people in the station where he works…

I was reading Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot and had reached a place when I thought I ought to give up the book when I came upon the phrase, the impudence of ignorance, words used to describe a character. I perked up. I’d just been listening to some commentary about Representative Akin’s statements on rape and abortion.…