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In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Always Boston Columns Cut Fall Heart Narrative Phoenix Teeth Though Writing

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Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Actually After Beef Boston Bowl Expensive Fun Knew Laurel Loves Make Marathon Medal Memorable Much Nobody Occasion Offered Particularly People Prize Race Stew Who Won Year

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There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Boston Covers Down Houses Lock Marathon Miles Now Past People Race Security Theater Tighten Town Travels Up Way Will

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For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Always American American Spirit Blowing Experiment Get Government Had Heart Individualism Keep May Notion Rugged Spirit Therefore Things Trust Us

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We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: American Because Common Debt Each Fundamental Imperative Land Lose Obligation Obliged Other Our Owe Own Places Posterity Protect Sight Sometimes Things Trees Truths Water Wild

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There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: American Barbarism Endanger Hand Law Liberty Lives Must Other Our Our Lives Out Protect Root Some Soul

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In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Affliction After Alzheimer Died Disease Fascinating Father Followed Four Him His Lands Prolonged Shadow Sibling Struggle

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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Admit Alzheimer Attacks Because Central Character Compelling Craft Familiar Identity Individual Language Make Make Up Makes Memory Most New Out Person Something Things Together Two Up Which Writer

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School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Around Aspects Assess Charge Colleges Concerning Country Districts Game Information Medical Might Moral Reasons Right Risks Same School Students Support Taxpayers Them Nfl

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The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Any Base Blood Boxing Entire Existence Fan Fan Base Fooling Football Game Itself Keep Level Modern Our Paying Rest Rests Somehow Sports Superior Whether Nfl

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 28th, 1953

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