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...this many children on a bus. But our group soon bonded by way of carriage rides, strudel-making lessons, fencing demonstrations and castle tours. As the junior passengers rolled their eyes at us, we adults were busy on the bus enjoying sing-alongs of Disney tunes. It was our inner children we were really taking on vacation--the kids were simply along for the ride...
...Penguin paid $100,000 for the English-language rights to Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem, a coming-of-age tale set in Inner Mongolia. It was a record sum for a Chinese novel. In 2008, the same publishing house issued, amid much brouhaha, Zhu Wen's I Love Dollars, a lively look at the dark side of China's boom. And it has just announced plans to bring more Chinese writers to the attention of international readers by expanding its Beijing operations...
...could be seen as a critique of the hypocrisy inherent in “Christian charity” (obviously, they don’t want the strange man-bat creature to attend their special revival weekend) or as the painful journey to ignore one’s inner animal instincts and just fit in. Even more strangely, it could be seen as a story of love: the failed love of Dr. and Mrs. Parker or the bizarre romance that develops between Shelley and Edgar. The first act, though entertaining for the most part, drags on, as it is merely...
...Obama, this is the original sin whose consequences must now be repaired. His foreign policy in the greater Middle East amounts to an elaborate effort to peel back eight years of onion in hopes of finding the war on terrorism's lost inner core: the struggle against al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda alone. That's the subtext underlying his new Afghan strategy. He's raising troop levels, but less to vanquish the Taliban than to gain the leverage to effectively negotiate with them - in hopes of isolating alQaeda from its Afghan allies. He's boosting America's means but narrowing...
While your story was well written and researched, it pretty much overlooked all but rich, suburban whites. What world is the writer living in? Certainly not the inner New York City one in which I teach college--the real, food-insecure world that represents the 21st century American experience for many of us. Most working parents I know are too busy trying to put food on the table to have time for "overparenting...