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David Brooks had\u00a0a great piece at the\u00a0New York Times<\/em> last weekend on the social and political benefits of friendship, and how to revive the lost art:<\/p>\n

Somebody recently asked me what I would do if I had $500 million to give away. My first thought was that I\u2019d become a moderate version of the Koch brothers. I\u2019d pay for independent candidates to run against Democratic or Republican members of Congress who veered too far into their party\u2019s fever swamps.<\/p>\n

But then I realized that if I really had that money, I\u2019d want to affect a smaller number of people in a more personal and profound way. The big, established charities are already fighting disease and poverty as best they can, so in search of new directions I thought, oddly, of friendship.<\/p>\n

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