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Should this story be told at all? There's an element of sick, voyeuristic fascination to it--we don't need an exercise in disaster porn. But Columbine is a necessary book. Narrating an event is a way to tame it, to give it a meaning, and the Columbine massacre is an aggressively, catastrophically meaningless event, a rip in the smooth fabric of an otherwise comprehensible world. It's a vacuum that urgently demands to be filled...
...many different ways over the course of its existence,” King says. “I feel like we’re part of the jazz canon, because we are improvisers first and foremost.”But jazz isn’t the defining element of The Bad Plus, whose latest album features both original tracks and a number of covers, including renditions of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Igor Stravinsky’s “Variations d’Apollon,” a 20th century classical...
Heavenly Beds in Houston. Starwood's new extended-stay brand, Element, has opened in Houston. The LEED-certified hotel has complimentary breakfast, a fitness center, a pool and in-room kitchens. Best of all, since Element is part of the Westin brand, it also features the trademark Heavenly Bed. As part of the opening, Element has discounted rates starting at $149 per night, with a two-night minimum stay required. The rates are valid through April 30, 2009. Use code GRANDOP to book. 14555 Vintage Preserve Parkway, Houston...
...should be honored, but—and here is the crux of my argument—are prizes supposed to merely be reactive? Are they not supposed to encourage further production of literature along with merely honoring the good work of the past? Should there not be a proactive element to prizes? I have to say that, as unpopular as the Swedish Academy is these days, the Nobel Prize Committee has got it right in this respect: no posthumous prizes. They dole out their dough only to writers who will use the money to continue to write; they bestow their...
Geithner and the Obama administration have much stake in the public-private partnership program. It is key to getting banks working again, which makes it an essential element in any economic recovery...