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• Is Lindsay Too Tall to Be Mayor?

  by Jimmy Breslin + Follow

  New York | July 1969

  "... Short, waddling, crying, sweating Mario talks about 'a clean city and a safe city,' and suddenly it's not too good to be tall and handsome. 'Send Lindsay to a dance,' the cabdrivers yell..."

• The Yankee Commandante

  by David Grann + Follow

  The New Yorker | May 2012

  How a dropout dreamer from the Midwest helped win Cuba for Castro and played a dangerous game with Hoover’s F.B.I.

• "We Pretend the Vets Don't Exist"

  by Anthony Swofford + Follow

  Newsweek | May 2012

  All across America veterans are committing suicide at unprecedented rates, but no one has been able to answer why. Anthony Swofford gets to the bottom of an epidemic.