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		<title>Descartes Letter Found, Therefore It Is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of&#160;treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the&#160;mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician. Among them were 72&#160;letters by René Descartes, the&#160;founding genius of modern philosophy and&#160;analytic geometry.&#160;Read more&#8230;


 
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		<title>Cannon-fire and blossom: the two sides of Chopin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has made it to grade four or five on the piano will, almost&#160;certainly, have encountered a piece by Chopin. Certainly, no&#160;compilation of &#8220;classics for beginners&#8221; is complete without his E minor&#160;Prelude. It&#8217;s got everything the fledgling&#160;pianist needs to feel good&#160;about their technique: it&#8217;s short, it&#8217;s in a gratifyingly slow speed&#160;and it has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bernstein on the Mystery Behind the Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine this: you drop onto the sofa on a Sunday afternoon, switch on&#160;the TV and see a dapper young man with a baton standing before an&#160;orchestra and demonstrating the patterns conductors use to lead music&#160;in different meters — two, three,&#160;four and five beats to the bar. He&#160;directs his players in a few examples, bits of&#160;Beethoven’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Orwell Endures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Sutton Courtenay churchyard about 10 miles south of Oxford, near the&#160;imposing tomb of H. H. Asquith, the prime minister 100 years ago, a&#160;much simpler gravestone reads “Eric Arthur Blair.” It was to that grave&#160;a friend and I recently made a&#160;pilgrimage for a sad anniversary. Blair&#160;died of tuberculosis on Jan. 21, 1950, at the age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Twain: A Public Image as Tailored as His Snow-White Suits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1907&#160;Mark Twain,&#160;America’s best-loved living author, visited England in a blaze of glory. Among the fellow literary lights he met there were&#160;Rudyard Kipling, who described the camera shutters around Twain “click-clicking like gun locks,” and&#160;George Bernard Shaw.&#160;“He is in very much the same position as myself,” Shaw said of Twain.&#160;“He has to put matters in [...]]]></description>
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