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Whatever happened to the literary heroes? `They are not even in school book sales any more, which is where unwanted books go when really unwanted
2001
ONE OF my best friends at school was a boy called Alex Cockburn, who was the son of Claud Cockburn, the well-known left-wing journalist. What a Communist like Claud was doing sending his son to a remote boarding school in Scotland is something I shall never know. In fact, as Claud always had tremendous trouble paying the fees, I am not sure he knew either, but I was very politically unaware in those days, even more than I am now, and it never occurred to me to wonder why someone so dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism should send his sons to such a capitalist institution. All I knew was that Alex came from a rather different background from mine. Respectability was in my genes, whereas...
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Alex Cockburn's Popular Front
1984
The Nation's Wittiest Soviet Apologist Has an Eye for Rich Men's Daughters
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Off message: Hail Arnie, mock king of the golden state
2003
Maybe he knows Hitler was the first Keynesian, and that's the bit of Adolf's legacy he cares about. [...] Hitler's a waxwork bogy.
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2008
The Redmen, who opened the tourney with an 11-10 win over the Wakefield Black Sheep on Saturday, also got two goals apiece from Jimmy Daruwalla of Rockville, Md., Lukas LaCava of Weston, Conn., and Nick Moreau of Trumbull, Conn. Rounding out the scoring for [McGill] was Alex Kost of Pelham, N.Y., Sheldon Locking of Calgary and Evan Stewart of B.C. Calgary's [Alex Siefert] won two gold medals and double Olympic medallist Karen Cockburn of Toronto continued her comeback from knee surgery on Saturday at the Elite Canada trampoline and tumbling competition held at the Capital Centre Fieldhouse in Kamloops, B.C. \"There's few people who execute that manoeuvre internationally,\" said Siefert. \"Many try it but it's one of the hardest to land. I was landing it successfully in training on a consistent basis so I was confident that I could do it here in front of the judges.\"
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