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Oh, the Things You’ll Buy! 10 Gifts That Your Graduate Will Actually Appreciate
Oh, the Things You’ll Buy! 10 Gifts That Your Graduate Will Actually Appreciate
By Michelle King
May 19, 2014

Because receiving Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is only encouraging another generation of man-babies.

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Beyond “This is Water”: 7 Kickass Commencement Speeches by Women Writers
Beyond “This is Water”: 7 Kickass Commencement Speeches by Women Writers
By Adina Applebaum
May 19, 2014

David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech is amazing, but Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison and Nora Ephron can do just as well (if not better).

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