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...least he can take comfort in the fact that PSLM’s chants are met with equal student apathy. (Note: A janitor suggested to me that PSLM replace chanting with periods of silence, judging they would have greater effect by symbolizing that students and workers are waiting for the University to speak. I think he’s onto something...
...part of the Japanese government and at other times by the insensitivity - or nationalism - of individual Japanese. In February, politicians in Taiwan marched through the streets of Taipei to burn a comic book by Japanese artist Yoshinori Kobayashi, whose inflammatory take on Taiwan's history portrays so-called comfort women as grateful for the opportunity to work as prostitutes. Indonesians were upset earlier this year by a Japanese film Merdeka, which depicts Japan's imperial army as helping Indonesia's fight for independence. The filmmakers have agreed to delete one particularly galling scene that shows an Indonesian woman kissing...
...just in case those stay-at-home moms found comfort in the choices and sacrifices they have made, the study also suggests that kids in strong child-care programs tend to develop better language and memory skills, are in certain respects better prepared for school. Would you take that trade...
...Comfort Me with Apples recounts how that voice was nourished, intertwining Reichl's professional coming of age with her not-unrelated emergence into full-blown womanhood. As such, it is a very adult meditation on love. The title borrows a line from the Song of Solomon that Reichl discovered in her confirmation Bible: "Comfort me with apples, for I am lovesick." The book luxuriates in her adulterous affair with her New West boss, Colman Andrews, who once greeted Reichl at an airport not with flowers but with fraises des bois flown in from France. "He kissed me and said, 'Close...
...think I'd exposed police corruption," she says. Now editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, Reichl made her reputation by chronicling not just the sensory attributes of food but its emotional and psychosocial qualities as well. She brings those same skills to writing about her life in Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Random House; 302 pages...