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...isolated from other adults who criticize his mother’s parenting. In an effort to find himself, Ares experiments with rebellion and turns to a new friendship with Kevin, a boy just released from a juvenile rehabilitation center. Ultimately, Kevin ends up dead and Ares takes the blame for a murder he did not commit, all to save the brother whose care he once resented. As far as coming-of-age tales go, “The God of War” is no “Catcher in the Rye.” Ares’ developmental transitions...
...illuminate Les Savy Fav’s enigmatic lyrics, but compounding elusive distraction upon elusive distraction is half the fun of indie music. The absolute inscrutability of lyrics such as “Quart doesn’t burn / Rust doesn’t hum / Maybe we should blame it on the structures of the sun” is just the sort of thing that inspires hipster high school students to their deepest moments of literary analysis. Matched with the ludicrous but amusing image of a cartoon wolf playing erotic Twister in his briefs, Les Savy Fav?...
...what should U.S. dollar policy be? Probably something along the lines of "We'd like it if the dollar got a bit cheaper, especially against the Chinese yuan and a few other Asian currencies, but then stopped falling." Can you blame the President for not wanting to say that at his next press conference...
...Scott Pelley, Harry Smith--are white men. (Diane Sawyer is a possibility, but that would mean going the celebrity-morning-show-host route again.) And CBS executives have speculated that viewers were not "ready" for a woman--maybe because network chiefs believe it, maybe because it's easier to blame society than themselves (while casting themselves as brave pioneers...
...retrace the footsteps of Attila the Hun and write a travel narrative afterwards. If we want to lie around just doing nothing, it is because Kierkegaard once spent his summer lying around doing nothing, and we’re preparing an 80-page thesis on it. Perhaps we should blame Richard Henry Dana. In 1840, this Harvard student’s Two Years Before the Mast transformed his nightmarish apprenticeship aboard a sailing vessel into an equally nightmarish—but bestselling—memoir. He was a trailblazer of the productive-unproductive summer. The consummate Harvardian, he glimpsed...