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...something about their own thinking. Most of us at this school, indeed, think like Americans. It is not intellectual integrity that leads us to pretend otherwise—and if we strive for “pure,” generic efficacy in academic life, we are apt to miss out on rich legacies in American thought.With a nationalist mindset, then, in my final weeks as a member of this academic community, I offer an instance of the most primal and distinctive kind of American speech: a jeremiad for the occasion.In the colonial pulpits of this area, fire...
...tipping point yet? What author Malcolm Gladwell described as small things that make a big difference seems like an apt metaphor for the latest developments on civil liberties and the Bush administration. First was Thursday morning's USA Today story, declaring, "NSA Has Massive Database of Americans' Phone Calls." The story dominated the morning news shows and drove the day's events, with the President racing to the microphones in the Diplomatic Room of the White House before departing on a trip to Mississippi. Bush didn't get into the specifics of the USA Today story, but he did defend...
...reviewing 38 studies of spanking, Robert Larzelere, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, concluded that in children under 7, nonabusive spanking reduced misbehavior without harmful effects. Not only does spanking work, Larzelere says, but it also reinforces milder forms of discipline, so that children are more apt to respond without spanking the next time...
...money, and rival Mafia gangs battled for control of parts of town. The killings haven't entirely stopped (a member of the city council was found hanged in his jail cell last year after being arrested for alleged extortion), but these days cranes rather than guns are a more apt symbol of Yekaterinburg. Office and apartment blocks are springing up. There's an Egyptian-themed bowling alley, a Scottish pub where the barmen wear kilts, a chain of eight fast-food restaurants called McPeak (which McDonald's considered buying), countless sushi bars and a huge German cash-and-carry hypermarket...
...murderous epileptic. It’s a tough role, requiring complete intensity and detachment simultaneously; he makes the audience love and hate him without being able to lost sight of him. His character has a picture of a young Marlon Brando in his room; it’s an apt comparison. When the older brother—a picture of bourgeoisie smugness—brings the murder out socially, his detachment is reminiscent of Christian Bale’s performance in “American Psycho.” It’s a scene that will remind college viewers...