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...women running for public office now be subject, along with their families, to this level of physical scrutiny and irrelevant analysis? Is there any chance that Time can become once again a serious, respectable and, if possible, less biased publication? Christopher DeVeau, Geneva The headline of Michael Kinsley's essay "Alaskanomics" enticed me to read on, expecting a cogent article that would give me an insight into the current brouhaha surrounding Sarah Palin's entry into the White House race [Sept. 15]. However, by the end I was wondering where you had dug up this misogynistic ranter who evidently believes...
...merely violent in tendency,” Amis writes. “Violence is all that is there.” It is a despicable yet undeniably powerful state of mind, one that swallows up all other thought.In the volume’s longest essay, “Terror and Boredom: the Dependent Mind,” Amis interweaves his analytical plot of the development and effects of radical Islamism with the personal story of a novella he had abandoned, called “The Unknown Known,” in reference to Donald Rumsfeld’s taxonomy...
...don’t understand, Fitz; it’s been a tough month. DFW, first of all. I was going to mention him in my entrance essay; the thinking was that the name-drop might bring some ‘pop’ to an otherwise mundane isle of prose. But it’s so much easier pretending to like Infinite Jest now that its author’s atop the big reading list in the sky. I suffered through half of that thing back in 2005, back when the guy was kicking around Claremont—what...
...reminder of Beijing's apparent inability or unwillingness to undertake the kind of reforms needed to stop the slaughter from continuing for years to come. "This is a long-term consequence of the economy-oriented ideology," Hu Xingdou, a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, wrote in an online essay about the tainted-milk-powder issue. "There hasn't been an effort to establish a moral foundation to the market economy, and this incident is the inevitable result...
...real change will require much more than just more training and education of officials. "Every time there is an incident, the relevant department takes medicine to cure the headache. That only fixes the problem, not the system," Professor Hu of the Beijing Institute of Technology wrote in his essay. "Now is the time to transform the way of thinking, to repair the system." Beijing-based China scholar Russell Leigh Moses isn't optimistic that will happen anytime soon. The problem is "not so much political or structural as psychological. The top leadership can't get over their anxiety that...