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Democrats found this election discombobulating because no matter how often they hear about a divided America, most blue staters--especially coastal élite types--still don't quite grasp that their world view is not shared by everyone. Day to day, liberals have the luxury of ignoring conservative America. Only occasionally does some red-state phenomenon like The Passion of the Christ intrude on our consciousness, and even then it's usually because of some outrage it sparks among a particular interest group on the left. Social conservatives, by contrast, cannot escape the world view of blue staters. Every time...
...what Munro offers her readers, the hope of that one good look. Her gift for nuance is such that you find yourself trying to imitate her. But what works for a fiction writer might not be the best idea for a reviewer. You risk having the reader fail to grasp your full meaning. So let's be clear about one thing here: this is a rave...
...schools, or in investment banker parties—but nobody is sending the Mystery Machine to investigate. This differential application of the law, coupled with the realities of life in the concentrated poverty of American ghettoes, has created a justice system where many blacks cannot escape its increasingly pervasive grasp, and many white politicians delude themselves into conveniently forgetting their own past drug use or the current drug use of their children...
...successfully gets into the head of every character involved in the Rodney King beatings of 1992 through the study of sociology and psychology. “Harvard has an opportunity to bring in classes from literature, history, sociology and psychology, all of which will give me a much better grasp on being able to play truthfully the characters I imagine,” Kargman says...
...financial resources to make guarantees like this, which may leave large numbers of students out in the cold or force them out of college entirely. This under-the-radar gutting of the Pell Grant program will ensure that equality of opportunity in the United States remains further from our grasp than ever...