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...related to experience, it is not relativism but it is relative, it is not individualism but it affirms the individual. In the end, the essay never specifies what exactly it is to be “without isms.” Literature is about the author, Gao insists??many, many times—and writing is something one does for one’s self, not for anyone else or for any idea.Of all the essays in the book, “The Case for Literature,” the lecture which inspired the compilation...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureate Gao Makes an Unconvincing ‘Case’ | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Republicans like to call it, the “death tax.” Never mind that giving people gobs of unearned money is known to dampen their desire to get a job and actually be productive. A tax on death is just wrong, Bush insists??it is almost as offensive as a tax on coffee. And so, countless scions of the upper class were put back on the inheritance dole...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: Bush's Distorted Economics | 10/1/2003 | See Source »

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