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Linda Schiffer

‘I have no business doing this’

Rebuilding the ruins and fixing the flats on a 415-mile charity bike ride

There is no earlier lie I can tell in an entry than the date, and thus I seem to be starting out this final entry with a big ole fib. The ride ended yesterday, and I'm sitting in the hotel restaurant with my continental breakfast before me struggling to wrap this account all together with some insightful witticisms.

I feel empty.

The last 50 miles were mostly fine physically. I'm chafed (emotionally, too), my left knee and I are in a fight, and my quads and I broke up on Day 3.

But still, I pedaled.

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Editorial substitutes pat, baseless rhetoric for perspicaciousness

The slant within the editorial "Plenty of blame" [The Commons, December 2008] caught me by surprise, as it did not seem to fit with the publication's usual perspicacity. It was easy to read that independent gubernatorial candidate Anthony Pollina “might have built a coalition with the Democratic Party" as...

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