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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A sexual assault on 142 St & 135 Ave in Queens, a robbery at 97th St & East Drive in Central Park in Manhattan, and a Buildings Department request on Henry St in Brooklyn.
  • Nice work, Nassau County: For its West Nile aerial spraying, it used resmerthirin, which the National Pesticide Information Center called "likely to be carcinogenic to humans."
  • Even though some NYC schools got $100,000 each from the state to alleviate overcrowding, those schools still grew anyway.
  • A second gun buyback at Brooklyn churches brings in 411 weapons.
  • Google co-founder Sergey Brin is buying an $8 million duplex on Greenwich Street.
  • Breaking up is hard to do, but look on the bright side: No more brunch!
  • Where can the common folk line up for a swing: McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds is the media's newest pinata.
  • Check out David Foster Wallace's writings for Harper's since 1989, including "Interviews with Hideous Men" from 1998 and "The Compliance Branch" from February of this year.

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David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon in 2005 was pretty awesome too!
http://goaheadsueme.blogspot.com/2005/05/david-foster-wallace-at-kenyon-college.html

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