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Given certain facts in her extended family’s history, this seems particularly unfortunate: Nina Auchincloss Straight, Jackie Kennedy’s stepsister, whose family has produced several Miss Porter’s girls, can only laugh at the girl’s sensitivity. “In this day and age, someone claiming that would have to be a lobotomy [case].” (The Basses decline to comment.)

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I’ve been intermittently reading Richard Posner’s judicial opinions. They have been less witty and piquant than I had been expecting, but there are moments. Consider his decision to retell this, for example: James Gilles (“Brother Jim”) [. . .] is a traveling evangelist–the latest in a line of Christian itinerant preachers stretching back to Saint [...]

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