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Whose head would you like to inhabit? No one's, really. Because I'd want it to be someone really smart, and that's a heap of trouble. If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything...
...remarkable, but whose company I seek out nearly every Saturday night. They roam in those eight imposing mansions that enshrine the mystique of the elite—admittedly debunked after meeting most of the members, but still somehow compelling every time I walk by. This world’s inhabitants and I share little to nothing in common—not gender, race, socioeconomic background, or unabashed self-entitlement, and certainly not a penchant for Nantucket Reds.But despite my dissimilar profile—and my lofty, if disingenuous, rejection of their elitism—I must secretly derive some satisfaction...
...years,” responded Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Avi Matalon. Matalon said that Israel is fighting a war on two fronts, both against the Palestinians and against those Israelis who refuse to see the world in realistic terms. To him, radical Israelis inhabit the same ideological side as the Islamic fundamentalists. “The danger now is if we’re not careful we will wake up in a Jewish Iran,” Matalon said. “I wish that were my problem,” retorted Wisse...
...married to a man who couldn’t love me; now, I’m with someone who loves me, but who is not a man.” No one talks like this in real life. Indeed, the shallow, obvious individuals that inhabit “Prime” prevent the story from reaching deeper emotional and comic levels. Rafi loves the Village and Merlot; Dave enjoys Nintendo and beer; Rafi’s gay guy pals in the Hamptons are prissy. These are not real people—they’re simply archetypes of modern...
...rite of passage, up there with learning to tie your shoes. Yes, Pluto was always an oddball: not only is it tiny (two-thirds the size of our moon), but it has a weird, elongated orbit that is tilted at a sharp angle to the plane the other planets inhabit. Still, the gap in size between Pluto and the biggest asteroids was comfortably huge...