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...This is my performance art piece," Pakulski announced to the assembled crowd. "The Educated Asshole." He dropped his pants and bent over, and DeMay proudly inserted a lit cigarette into Pakulski...
...finished my final exam in Matter in the Universe just a day before, and although I had done my best to ignore the class for as much of the semester as possible, my final week of studying had filled my head with a welter of black holes, bent time and astral planes. I was academically ready to watch and receive whatever the sons of the Gene Roddenberry were positing as the trek to end all treks. I even had the gall to guess at the cause of the Enterprise's misfortune (I was wrong; Cores are quantitative approaches to knowledge...
That is exactly what Don DeLillo envisions in his vivid 1988 novel, Libra, which has been adapted and staged by John Malkovich for Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. Oswald is variously buffeted by communists who hate Kennedy, CIA renegades bent on a better Bay of Pigs invasion and Mafia overlords whose motives are as shadowy as their methods. As history, the explanations are no more satisfying than any others. As literature, the portrait of Oswald's strange world -- especially his bizarre mother -- is richer, spookier and eerily funnier than anything else on the subject...
...pale face cleansed and washed clean by trauma. She walked head up, back straight and proud, in a flowing black veil. There was the moment in the Capitol Rotunda, when she knelt with her daughter Caroline. It was the last moment of public farewell, and to say it she bent and kissed the flag that draped the coffin that contained her husband -- and a whole nation, a whole world, was made silent at the sight of patriotism made tender. Her Irish husband had admired class. That weekend she showed it in abundance. What a parting gift...
...reject the deep-seated promptings of the diversity-crusaders so much as their methodology. I too would like the Harvard faculty to look a little bit less like the Elks club from some New Hampshire hamlet. But I am not so bent on this notion of diversity that I would be willing to short-circuit strictly meritocratic hiring procedures in order to bring it about...