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...perhaps that's what the Fourth of July is for. Originality, in a sense, would be a violation of tradition. The language of patriotism, with all its clichs and its repetitions, can bind us almost as much as the ideals themselves...
...music--tender ballads, angry anthems, rowdy dance tunes--has sustained us through 17 years of road trips. Jersey Girl was the first song at our wedding. We played Born to Run on the way to the hospital to have our first child. And The Ties That Bind has never failed us. With Bruce still outdoing himself at 50, we're counting on him to shepherd us into middle age and beyond...
...fear. The People of the Screen (working at places like E Ink and Xerox) are creating thin films of paper and plastic that hold digital ink. A piece of paper then becomes a paper screen: one minute it has a poem on it, the next it has the weather. Bind a hundred of these digital pages between covers, and you have a book that can change its content yet still be read like a book. You turn the pages (a way to navigate through text that is hard to improve), and when you are finished, you slap it into...
When Radcliffe officially owned the buildings, Harvard College was in a bind--any renovations to "quad properties" had to be approved by a recalcitrant Radcliffe...
...only African-American woman in her classes as an undergraduate, Malcolm began to question the presence of women minorities in science, now called the double bind...