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...students themselves are becoming savvier consumers. As the industry moves toward more frequent editions of textbooks as well as ones that are tailor-made for different colleges - tactics Koch and other critics say is designed to suppress a large-scale market for used textbooks - many undergraduates are searching e-commerce and social-networking sites like Facebook for schoolmates who may be looking to sell the books they just finished using. And some try to save money by muddling through without any textbooks. For these cash-strapped students, says Nicole Allen, a consumer advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group...
Police investigators accuse Olmert of putting the surplus money into a private bank account, amassing upwards of $100,000 over the years, and dipping into it for his family vacations. The Prime Minister's Office denies the charges and says that Olmert paid for his private trips with frequent flier miles. His office blames the police for "a misleading attempt to create drama...
Remember the tightwad tourist whose baggy shorts, frequent complaining and shouted questions about why none of the locals spoke any English made the ugly American the world's Visitor from Hell? Well, it's time for Archie Bunker to move over and make way for Petulant Pierre. According to a recent international survey, the French are now considered the most obnoxious tourists from European nations, behind only Indians and the last-place Chinese as the worst among countries worldwide. And it's not just the rest of the world that has a gripe with the Gallic attitude: the French also...
...book because it struck them as coarse. Twain himself wrote that the book's banners considered the novel "trash and suitable only for the slums." More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim, the escaped slave whose adventures twine with Huck's, and its frequent use of the word nigger. (The term Nigger Jim, for which the novel is often excoriated, never appears...
...much he loved what were called "nigger shows" in his youth--these were minstrel shows, mostly with white men performing in blackface--and his delight in getting his prim mother to laugh at them. Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality. His frequent assaults on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not. The shows were simply a form of entertainment popular all over the country in the 19th century, a part of the background against which he grew into his firm adult convictions...