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...That brings us to the major challenge of Americanizing many of these shows, which is not so much cultural as structural. Like our restaurant portions and children, we make our TV bigger in the States. Where an overseas series may run a dozen or so episodes in its entire life, an American show will air 22 or more a season. So plots must be stretched out and subplots multiplied. This is not automatically bad; the American version of The Office fleshed out a stronger supporting cast, made its central character more multifaceted and found its own voice. Other adaptations find...
...country will laugh at it and say, “Yes, Bill O’Reilly, that is so true!” If this humor based on irrational untruths, out of date stereotypes, and fear is gratifying to most Americans, then maybe we’ve got bigger problems coming. —Columnist Andrew F. Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...heartened to find that even as fierce partisans across the Internet rehashed his single comment again and again, major media outlets are hardly graced it with a single mention. They have bigger things to worry about than token politics—that pesky bank bailout, for instance, that McCain’s cavalier intervention and the political posturing of his House Republican friends may have put beyond rescue. They have better things to worry about...
...bailout? The consequences are the same whether we do the bailout or not. The difference is who pays for it. We're having a contraction from deflation of an asset bubble that was overpriced. We're just going through that cycle. With the bailout, you delay it, make it bigger and put it on your children. It's essentially delaying pain. Without the bailout, this generation pays for it and we know what the bill is. That money's not coming back...
...their female gender identity more quickly." It should be noted that many transgender men do experience discrimination, especially if they are short and if they don't look convincingly male. Also, it's harder for MTFs to pass than FTMs: men who become women still have large hands and bigger frames. The less-convincing appearance of MTFs probably explains part of the reason they earn so much less after they transition. Still, the new paper suggests an entirely new vein of research in the field. It also suggests that if you're thinking about changing sexes, you should carefully consider...