Word: contently
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Worst of all, University administrators have given these foreign elements free reign for the past half-century. Rather than force them to take remedial courses about this country, catching up to their peers’ years of high school history courses, professors’ refusal to mandate American content in the curriculum gives foreigners a hall pass. Rather than quarantine them in some kind of international dormitory, we deliberately mix them into the rooms of unsuspecting Midwesterners, under the bizarre assumption that living with someone who thinks it’s acceptable for heterosexual men to kiss and embrace...
David Golding accurately captures the “be-healthy-or-I’ll-kill-you” attitude of the antismoking movement and its antiseptic goal of a world without tobacco (“Life Kills,” comment, Sept. 12). Reformers, however, are not content only to outlaw smoking in bars and restaurants, to tax cigarettes exorbitantly, or to stigmatize smokers. They hope to eliminate it from the historical record...
...days, China and the other countries participating in what some have called Bretton Woods II export so much more to the U.S. than they import, they find themselves with hundreds of billions of dollars that they don't know what to do with. Up to now they've been content to recycle most of them by buying Treasury bills and other U.S. securities. The U.S. has enjoyed the low interest rates that have resulted, while China, the gulf states and Japan haven't wanted to face the consequence that by selling dollars, they would decrease the value of their remaining...
...find the back blank, the dust jacket non-existent, and the cover glued to the “pages.” The book was a prop, a fake, meant solely for decoration. Enraged though I was at the thought that someone who could care less about the content would display a faux-Hemingway on the living room shelf, I realized that I was being a bit hypocritical: I myself had not read the book. Returning home sans rug, lamp, and anything else I had actually been looking for, I rummaged through my family’s old collection...
...novel tells the hardboiled tale of Meyer Landsman as he attempts to solve a strange and seemingly inconsequential murder while dealing with the burdens of his depression and alcoholism, his disintegrated marriage, and the coming reversion of his Jewish homeland to the American government. In both form and content, Chabon’s novel is a true expression of pluralism, firmly grounded in both its particularity and its universality, fully Jewish and fully American. It’s a powerful challenge to the politics of Israel and the United States. It’s a haunting exploration of the mysteries...