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...your nose wet. Take your first taste. If you haven’t yet learned to label the different flavors and tastes, simply and slowly savor the experience. And even if you aren’t enjoying the experience, you must go through these steps anyway if you ordered the wine. As with sections when you haven’t done the reading, it is important to act as if you know what is going on, even if—and especially when—you don’t.—Columnists Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne...
There was something not quite authentic about the Super Bowl victory celebration here last week. The crowd was not rowdy football fans; it was a group of shy local women and children who are unlikely to have seen the game, but came anyway to get a free Super Bowl T-shirt or hat. And then there was the fact that the champions being celebrated on those T-shirts and hats were the New England Patriots...
...Parents Television Council (PTC), a TV-decency watchdog, is not so charmed. When CBS picked up Dexter as a strike replacement from sister network Showtime, it cut out the most graphic violence and language, but the group is pressing advertisers to boycott the show anyway. Edits or no edits, says PTC president Tim Winter, "it's the entire premise that's the problem. You are in a disturbingly queasy way rooting for a mass murderer to kill somebody...
...runs a very good online program that reviews shows for family-friendliness. This kind of effort--which enables choice rather than limiting it--might recognize Dexter as an intelligent, dark show for grownups and maybe mature youths (many of whom would probably rather watch it unedited anyway). Making those educated choices can be overwhelming for parents, it's true. But it's in the spirit of democracy, where ideas are life or death...
...good news is that the superdelegate conundrum is likely to resolve itself without much drama. The thing to remember about superdelegates is that they are pols-and tend not to be all that independent-minded anyway. The last thing they want is to act as referees who call the winner of a grueling 15-round championship fight. In fact, for most of the superdelegates, choosing-in public-between the heroine of one set of Democratic voters and the hero of a different set is a nightmare. What is most likely is that the superdelegates will stay on the fence. They...