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Paglia’s collection of “forty-three of the world’s best poems” in English, each paired with a brief critical essay, has all the passion and eloquence of the volume’s title. The phrase “break, blow, burn” is drawn from a sonnet by the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, but here it has a decidedly contemporary ring...
...just being attentive to the confidentiality of all that I have received so far,” Hoxby, a Harvard College professor and member of the Faculty’s Standing Committee on Women, said in a brief phone interview...
...Momentous Design Re your milestone on the death of Oleg Cassini [March 27]: When Jacqueline Kennedy selected Cassini to design her wardrobe, it was a rare event, of note not just in the fashion world but also in politics. As a team, they turned elegance into power. For one brief shining moment, our country was the epitome of grace and style. Patricia Dimassa-Rida West Haven, Connecticut, U.S. Au Revoir to Job Security My advice to the students demonstrating and rioting throughout France over the youth labor law [March 27] is: Get over it. Job security no longer exists...
...slow growth in the world's key economic locomotive. The Fed has increased a key short-term interest rate?the so-called Fed funds rate?15 times dating back to June 2004, and is widely expected to raise it once or twice more over the next few months. A brief recession and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 spurred a prolonged period of very low interest rates. That boosted U.S. consumption?in particular the rate-sensitive housing market?and kept the global economy humming. But long-term rates are now beginning to tick upward: last week...
...unfrozen-caveman crime wave. Crack the spine of his faux atlas, The Areas of My Expertise, and you'll learn of Frdric Chopin's ladybug obsession, Maine's state motto ("Remember the Maine!") and the Depression-era rebellion that resulted in Hobo Joe Junkpan's brief appointment as Secretary of the Treasury. In Hodgman's authoritative prose and hyperrational voice, the joke is that erudition can be a form of madness and that facts are just lies in tweed jackets...