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...Still, Italians are likely to barely notice the latest courtroom tussle. In a country where guilt is always relative, politicians tend to stick around through even the thickest mud. And most voters have long ago made up their minds that Berlusconi is either a crook or the victim of blood-thirsty prosecutors who want to usurp power from a democratically elected leader. The timing, so close to Berlusconi?s showdown with former European Commission President Romano Prodi, may actually help Berlusconi by convincing some of the relatively few undecided voters that there is indeed a political motive for the investigations...
...long second act begins as Carla involves herself more deeply with the native Mexico City residents she meets through Memo, a would-be revolutionary who sells Marxist pamphlets at the local market. Memo's relentless denigration of Carla's first-world background tugs on a string of middle-class guilt and self-loathing tied around Carla's soul. Yearning for the "authentic" Mexican experience, Carla eventually ends up in a flat she shares with her new Mexican boyfriend Oscar, who dreams of becoming a DJ in America, but settles for selling pot and T-shirts to tourists. Eventually his underworld...
...maybe Sittenfeld purposefully depicted her in this manner. After all, Lee does not identify with the reporter’s blind villainization of prep schools. On the contrary, Lee feels pangs of guilt at having unwittingly dragged Ault’s name through the journalistic...
...Toxic’ is a pretty fun song, though,” she adds, “or at least it was a few years ago.”So, is irony the solution to the hipster’s dilemma, and the cure for her main source of guilt? Can it let you abide by your fiercest artistic commandments while admitting a few sins of your own? Can you be both prophet and sinner?Some reject the idea of musical sin altogether—and where there’s no sin, irony can give no absolution. Susan...
There is a reason that “Summer Sisters” stayed on The New York Times bestsellers list for five months—it truly is the perfect combination of pleasure served with just enough, but not too much, guilt...