As a result of lottery lolly the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Scotland, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection and many others have had a makeover, bringing them up to modern standards in terms of access, educational facilities, exhibition space and more.

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Though that idea was quickly chucked, several works from that first issue are in this collection, including a story by David Foster Wallace, delivered languidly and without paragraph breaks from an ex-convict, and an essay by Zev Borow about the Hawaiian secessionist movement.

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