By Nicholas Howe

Back copies of The New York Times tend to pile up in my house. This may be an inheritance from my father, who felt it was his duty to read every word of the paper except the sports section and the financial section. His teaching duties during the a school year, however, meant that there wasn’t enough time for such devotion, so each day he’d read the top few inches of the columns, then slide the paper under the pile of unread back issues beside his desk and take the top paper for real study. Number specialists will realize that he’d be falling farther and farther behind, so he’d catch up with bursts of old-news reading during vacations.

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