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SOLVING IS BETTER THAN RESOLVING

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20001231
Author:Robin W. Winks

I have long given up making New Year's resolutions: to lose weight, to have change ready for the homeless, to pay my bills on time, to read "Jane Eyre" again with a keener eye to its dark feminist message than I was able to apply to it when I was 16. These resolutions survive for weeks at the most.

Among my resolutions were to read at least one book by every person who has won the Nobel or Pulitzer prizes for literature. The former always fails at Frans Sillanpaa; I abandon the latter at Booth Tarkington (twice). And the latest list of Edgar winners sends me back to what my children call my ...

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