COLUMNISTS The intellectual talent scout
Posted: September 30, 2009 at 3:41 a.m.
There must still be places like the all-night cafes and cafeterias I remember on the Lower East side, where students could sit till all hours nursing a cup of coffee or maybe a glass tea-a glesele tay, to lapse into my childhood Yiddish-while solving all the problems of the world, or maybe just stirring them up. Or at least making the kind of obscure ideological distinctions that seem all-important at the time.
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Editorial, Pages 16 on 09/30/2009
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