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DEAD RECKONING.

The New Yorker

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Steven Shapin on Steven Johnson's "The Ghost Map."

John Updike on "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

On September 14, 2000, Representatives George Radanovich, Republican of California, and David Bonior, Democrat of Michigan, introduced a House resolution--later to be known as H.R. 596--on the slaughter of the Armenians. The measure urged the President, in dealing with the matter, to demonstrate "appropriate understanding and sensitivity." It further instructed him on how to phrase his annual message on the Armenian Day of Remembrance: the President should refer to the atrocities as "genocide." The bill was sent to the International Relations Committee and immediately ...

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