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In the annals of gift-giving, certain moments stand alone.
In the year 32 B.C., Mark Antony gave Cleopatra the Riviera. In A.D. 36, God gave... More >>
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I think I've found a silver lining to the awful fix our city's police department has found itself in. Now that Assistant Chief Alex Fagan Sr. has... More >>
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R&R French Bros., a commercial floor-covering showroom and warehouse on Alabama Street, has been part of the economy of San Francisco's... More >>
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As San Francisco enters a season of political upheaval in which more than $300 million must be cut from the city's budget, just as voters prepare... More >>
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It was only by happenstance that PricewaterhouseCoopers released a scathing financial audit of NASA just two days before the space shuttle... More >>
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By one measure at least, America is living a gilded age of journalism. In years past, investigating a story meant contacting the staff librarian... More >>
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There are few vocations less appreciated, yet more essential to the launching of the modern era, than that of the pamphleteer.
Two hundred... More >>
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It's another quiet day at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer snores at his desk while his dog licks doughnut crumbs from his limp hands.... More >>
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With 2002 emitting death rattles and 2003's cervical mucous plug just popping out, it seemed again time to fustigate(1) that reliable bromide:... More >>
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