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Is this or is this not a young Abe Lincoln? . . . I might post a couple of useless thoughts about the A-Rod story later, but for now, Miles offers an entertaining roundup of the scandal’s winners and losers. . . . For any word-game nerds out there, the New York Times has a crossword puzzle blog. . . . Alex Ross dug Radiohead (and not much else) at the Grammys, and he’s presenting a lecture in a few hours at the Dallas Museum of Art, if you’re in that neighborhood.