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2003 Stories by Brendan Bernhard

• Box Populi

  published December 25, 2003

  1 The war in Iraq: Although the postwar turned out to be more eventful. It seems so long ago — April? — that we waited the better pa... More >>

• Vex and Violence

  published December 18, 2003

  Photo by Ron Batzdorff Larry David, television’s grouchy comic genius, is back — or will be in a couple of weeks, when Curb Yo... More >>

• Alien Perspective

  published December 4, 2003

  Photo by Jack Gould It’s autumn in the world of Martin Amis. The trees aren’t bare, certainly, but the leaves are unmistakably tinged wi... More >>

• Gloom, Doom and George W. Bush

  published November 27, 2003

  LONDON--You may not be able to get as many TV channels in London as you can in Los Angeles or New York, but you sure as hell can buy a lot more... More >>

• Rumsfeld Peed His Pants

  published November 27, 2003

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• Streets of Loathing

  published November 27, 2003

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• This Peeping-Tom World

  published November 27, 2003

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• Teenage Brooklyn

  published November 20, 2003

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• Love in the City

  published November 20, 2003

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• Words, Music, and More Words

  published November 13, 2003

  Photo by Brendan Bernhard When John Wesley Harding wrote a song back in 1997 called “Miss Fortune,” he couldn’t have imagined just how m... More >>

• Said's Last Stand

  published November 13, 2003

  In 1983, when I worked in the library at Columbia University, I checked a book out to Edward Said, the Palestinian-American author of... More >>

• Odd Coupling

  published November 6, 2003

  Someone once said that smoking a cigarette is as near as you can get to doing nothing while technically doing something. If so, watching... More >>

• Death in Moscow

  published October 30, 2003

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• Down These Sick Streets

  published October 16, 2003

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• Monsieur Lévy’s Working Holiday

  published October 2, 2003

  “Hah hah hah . . .” Al Franken was laughing the self-satisfied laugh of a man whose book is No. 1 on The New Yo... More >>

• Freaky Sundays

  published October 2, 2003

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• Rewriting Bush

  published September 18, 2003

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• Heat

  published August 21, 2003

  It’s summertime, and the old attention span isn’t what it used to be. With the beach beckoning, and half the western world slapping on sunt... More >>

• Your Future, 24/7

  published August 14, 2003

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• The Global Effect

  published July 31, 2003

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• Paradise Glossed

  published July 31, 2003

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• Mind the Bollocks

  published July 17, 2003

  Of late, bollocks have been big on TV. So have balls. “You’ve got to have a giant pair of bollocks to succeed in this profession,” grow... More >>

• Murder She Wrote

  published July 10, 2003

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• Bend Over

  published July 3, 2003

  Lately, David Beckham has been in the news in the United States, perhaps the only major country in which he is not a household name. The... More >>

• Art vs. Science

  published June 26, 2003

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