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There was so much cynicism and comic fuel in the whole bonfire that the sadness of it was easily lost. The closet remains a dark and roomy place, full of attitudes we won't admit to and contradictions we can't explain. We can be a country that commemorates gay marriages in the Sunday papers and exalts gay characters in our sitcoms but still views it as career suicide to be an openly gay actor or athlete or politician unless you represent some very select ZIP codes. So who are the real hypocrites here, and how do we decide, publicly...
Theroux's strength as a writer and a traveler has always come from his readiness to say and do what few of us would admit to, and it's a safe bet that these gleefully impenitent stories will not be promoted by the American Chamber of Commerce or the Indian Ministry of Tourism. Monkeys are likened to humans in the first sentence of the book, and in one story the only sympathetic creature is a murderous elephant. Pieties old and new are shot down with every politically incorrect maneuver. "If you succumbed to India's vivid temptation to generalize," Theroux...
...admit I shy away from motels that are obviously run by Middle Easterners. In my many nights on the road, I have found them to be less clean and poorly maintained. My favorite motel went downhill fast when it was taken over by Middle Easterners. Writer Hilary Hylton should have talked to a few travelers before calling us prejudiced against foreigners...
...Harvard consistently finds itself in the top few slots in these rankings, and variations within these positions do not seem to affect applicant numbers, or admit and yield rates...
Harvard came in as the hardest college to get into—with an admit rate last year of slightly under 9 percent—and as the school with the best college library. It was also featured on the list of Best Northeastern Colleges, Colleges With a Conscience, and America's Best Value College. The College also came in top ten for best college newspaper and most politically active students and top twenty for dorm quality and how studious students tend...