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Admirers of Ondaatje's spare, yet poetical prose will find much to enjoy. Describing two people who make love robustly in a grounded plane, he writes: "Their sex takes place in the late afternoons, and shortly afterwards they emerge from the Airstream like humbled dormice." Ondaatje has a gift for capturing music and landscape in words, and there are gorgeous descriptions of strumming guitars, running horses and swooping hawks. But the second part of the book is a letdown; the descriptions in France are often too contrived, too literary. We want less about Segura's art, more about Coop...
...Perhaps boys are floundering because they no longer enjoy undivided attention. Schools now provide boys and girls the same educational resources. Historically, girls overcame harsh inequities and brutal discrimination. Boys have been deprived of nothing. The age-old excuse, "Boys will be boys," is the root of the problem. Boys have to learn responsibility. Then they will succeed. Jeanette V. Novak, Northville, Michigan...
...article failed to highlight a crucial point. While Chinese in their 20s and 30s are certainly exploring the new consumerism, they are most readily applying for Party membership. Affiliation with China's Communist Party helps ensure more of the bene fits these young people seek to enjoy; it also raises some interesting questions about possibly a much more complicated relationship between youth and politics in China. Caroline Cooper, Jakarta...
...whom seeing a movie the first weekend is important: young men. Thus there are a lot of movies--this is not sexist, it's just business--about superheroes, things blowing up and terrifying ordeals at the hands of ghastly psychos. (To be fair, research shows young women also enjoy the last.) Then the guys--or girls--can attain some social status from being able to discuss the cool scenes. Nobody goes to work or class the next day and says, "You gotta go see that awesome broken heart...
...have some other interests outside of Harvard, so I’m not going to define what I’m going to do in the future, but I’m happy to have the security of this, and I really enjoy that,” he said. “I don’t have a lot of reservations about it, but I don’t know where I’ll be in five years...