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Perhaps most controversial is The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris, who asserts that relationships with peers--not parents--determine how children turn out. No less alarming is "Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me?" by Hara Estroff Marano, who reports that peer rejection puts children at risk for dropping out, teen pregnancy, drugs, criminality and mental-health problems...
First, Georgia gave you Scarlett O'Hara and debutante balls. Then it was Southern Baptists, sweet tea and grits. Now, from the epicenter of Southern gentility, the very buckle of the Bible Belt, comes Nashville Pussy's latest CD: Let Them Eat Pussy...
...names in American literature, has never been of great interest to the academic critical establishment. His new books, when they appear, are readily available and widely read, but they never seem to generate much critical dialogue, to the point that his New York School peers John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler have out-grown him as literary figures. He is too prominent a participant in literary history to be thought of as only a minor poet, but too slight a critical icon to be considered a major one. It's strange--even after winning the Bollingen Prize...
Could those little golden men be contemplating hara-kiri with those swords? Perhaps, if they had any idea of the farce they seem poised to act out Monday night...
...shame occupied the same place in American culture that it does in Japan, Washington, D.C., would be Suicide City. The hara-kiri of a Japanese Finance Ministry official this week after he was questioned by officials investigating bribery is simply the latest indication that the spectre of public disgrace still compels men of power in Japan to take the way of the samurai. Continued...