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...ethos of New Deal America. The sex scenes between Roark and his on-again-off-again lover, journalist Dominique Francon, are so violent that Roark could probably be charged with rape today. And, post-9/11, readers may be less tolerant towards Roark, who has a disturbing propensity to blow up architecturally-unsound buildings in New York City. Nonetheless, Rand’s pulpy prose still proves riveting. And her philosophy—which extols the virtue of selfishness—remains strangely compelling. But be forewarned: if you read this book, you might never give a dime to charity...
Back in my car, I picked up a peach from the driver’s seat and hit the gas on a story 10 minutes down the highway, letting the wind blow everything else all away...
...This is a nation that can go from shock to trance in two weeks," Senator Obama said last week. The current debate on poverty is likely to blow away by the time hurricane season ends. But Katrina and Rita offer those who actually care about poor people a chance to rethink their strategy. Certainly it is time to move beyond victimhood and race-based aggrievement to something more intelligent and inclusive. There are nearly twice as many poor white people living in the U.S. as poor blacks; the black poverty rate diminished dramatically-from 33.4% to 22.5%-during the Clinton...
...high-flying Bulldogs offense led by Alvin Cowan, Nate Lawrie, Ralph Plumb, and Robert Carr was supposed to have led Yale to a pair of Ivy titles. Before that, it was a solid Princeton squad which was supposed to unseat Harvard and blow past Penn en route to the crown...
...Category 4 hurricane dealt New Orleans a devastating blow that has already left hundreds dead and has decimated or practically erased towns from the Gulf Coast. Lawmakers have predicted that the hurricane would ultimately cost the federal government more than $300 billion, more than the combined cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to date. Mayor C. Ray Nagin had initially speculated that the death toll might reach 10,000, though a preliminary body recovery last week authorities shrunk those estimates. New Orleans, a city that had won fame among conventioneers and nighttime revellers, had become a waterlogged ghost...