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...Everyday Abnormality "Reconsidering Friends," James Poniewozik's analysis of how the hit TV series redefined the idea of normal family life, was right on target [April 26]. The message of Friends is that there is no "normal" anymore. This witty sitcom showed that there is the possibility of grace in the midst of what cultural conservatives disdainfully refer to as dysfunctional relationships. The grace is evident in the characters' unconditional love and acceptance of one another's foibles and downright annoying idiosyncrasies. The best thing about the show is not so much its humor but the way it depicts...
That remained the case practically up to the present. It's really only in the past 100 years that cars and other machinery have dramatically reduced the need for physical labor. And as exercise has vanished from everyday life, the technology of food production has become much more sophisticated. In the year 1700 Britain consumed 23,000 tons of sugar. That was about 7.5 lbs. of sugar per capita. The U.S. currently consumes more than 150 lbs. of sweetener per capita, nearly 50% of which is high-fructose corn syrup that is increasingly used as a sugar substitute. Farmers armed...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...
...treating their employees unfairly or suppressing protest in the streets. The latter is a principle that should motivate our dealings with states as varied as Israel and Saudi Arabia, to take one exemplary region. The former is its domestic counterpart, the belief that human suffering occurs in the everyday, literally in the spaces we share, and that it can be prevented by intelligent taxation and regulation. Whoever tells you this is class warfare is a class warrior of the worst kind: the point of compassionate policy is to regard people as people, without regard to class, having an equal claim...
...loyal. His greatest attachment was to the Friars Club, of which he was a member for more than 50 years, succeeding Frank Sinatra in 1997 as Abbot. Although it rarely showed on his face, his love of all things Friarly--not just the roasts he often hosted but the everyday bonding over lunches and cigars--was contagious, and he saved an organization whose average age, when he took over, was often described as "dead." The club, in all its ridiculous seriousness, will forever be shaped by his personality...