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March 3, 2009 Building collapses / GSA / Sen. Ribicoff / The Solomon Scandals

The IRS as fodder for David Foster Wallace and me

In my little overview of D.C. fiction, I quoted Jeffrey Charis-Carlson, a specialist in this area: "It takes a great

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