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Live! Tonight!

Dull is good. That was the motto of a history professor I once had. Mr. Hickey trotted this maxim out periodically. Usually, whenever a student gushed about how they would have loved to live—add whatever historical period you wish. After a while, we'd deliberately bait him. We hoped to get a story like the death of Napoleon's …

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Decline and Fall

New pop wisdom holds that guys think about the Roman Empire every day. Wow. What a momentous observation. Now stop and consider the statement, "Try not to think about a polar bear." Well, give it sixty seconds - could you not think about a polar bear? Well try now not to think about the Roman Empire. Because of this …

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