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...Tuesday.’)” I can’t help but feel that his editors ought to have taken another look at the manuscript before it went to print. To be fair, the book is not entirely lacking in insight. Leitch’s essay about steroids is a particularly cogent meditation on sports’ most-discussed topic, if only because its thesis is one rarely voiced in the media: the truth is, we just don’t care. At the end of the day, Barry Bonds is an incredible athlete, even...
...Olympics, presenting new events like “Dragon Catching” and “Overpopulation.” Another “story” features a reporter infiltrating a honeybee colony while disguised as an “unpollinated daffodil,” while a photo essay explores the outsourcing of the “American lava lamp industry to the islands of Indonesia, where lava is cheap, plentiful, and harvested by thousands of natives.” A spread features a picture of a lion composed of many smaller pictures of human breasts, described...
...Stuff They Don't Need Re "The New Austerity," most adults I hear from claim that their spending on bigger homes and more cars and stuff is for family [March 24]. But as a high-school teacher, I have never had a student write an essay on the wonderful big home, the two cars or any of the other stuff showered on them. Instead, students write of their parents' absence - due to busy lifestyles or divorce - and the sense that they are disconnected from their peers. I hope your article spurs readers to free up time for friends and family...
Michael Eric Dyson is university professor of sociology at Georgetown University. He is the author of 16 books, including April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America, from which this essay is adapted...
Meanwhile, there is another, quite different view of what the E.U. is about politically - and it is this alone that explains the present treaty. In a recently published essay, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote: "In Europe the nation-state is in the process of being diminished. The European Union is supposed to replace it, but the reality is that Europe is in transition between a past that it has rejected and a future which it has not yet reached...