"They're inheriting the beginning of the solution to the problem, " says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

FORBES: Election 2008

That does not necessarily mean that the next Congress will fail to come up with a deficit-reduction deal, argues James Thurber of American University.

ECONOMIST: Moderates of both parties are being purged

Essays by the likes of James Thurber, John Cheever, E.

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L. Mencken, James Thurber, Mark Twain, John Updike, even P.

ECONOMIST: Letters | The

Where are the monumental public works, the great public spaces, dedicated to the likes of Emerson and Twain, Edgar Allan Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Thurber and James Baldwin?

NEWYORKER: Politics and Prose

But surely there is a direct line of descent from James Thurber (1894-1961), many of whose madcap sketches and parables draw on his childhood in Columbus, Ohio and the inherently uneasy relationship between men and women and the comparative sublimity of dogs (even those that bite).

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Let's start with the wine writers, the people who contribute observations like "It is a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption, " at least in the imaginations of James Thurber and Monty Python (a fine Australian fighting wine, indeed).

FORBES: Faking It

James Thurber and E.

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