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...February, Pantheon will publish "Nigger: A Problem in American Culture" by Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School and an occasional TIME contributor. According to the publisher, "It is perhaps the most consequential social insult in American history and, at the same time, a word that reminds us of ?the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience. Now, Randall Kennedy ?puts a tracer on nigger,? in order to identify its use and analyze the controversies to which it has given rise. With unprecedented candor and insight he explores such questions as: How should ?nigger? be defined...
Delivering an improvised speech entitled, “Against Jesters Who Defame and Insult,” Fo used a series of drawings to criticize the Swedish Academy for choosing him and then delivered a discourse on institutionalized forms of violence ranging from the execution of medieval court jesters to recent assassinations of intellectuals in Turkey...
...streets of Tokyo are beginning to stink like New York did when I lived there in the 1980s." That's just about the worst insult you could deliver in Japan, but Yasunori Fukugawa, 47, a professor of urban planning, isn't the only one who sniffs trouble. In the shadows of Tokyo's futuristic skyscrapers, there are tent cities with hundreds of permanently homeless men. Mother Teresa's nuns have set up a soup kitchen in the second richest nation on Earth. The economy is shrinking, and the official unemployment rate has risen to 5%, highest in a generation...
...Medical Center, Young never had much reason to question that received wisdom, but in 1980 he began to have his doubts. Spinal cords, he knew, experience progressive damage after they're injured, including swelling and inflammation, which may worsen the condition of the already damaged tissue. If that secondary insult could be relieved with drugs, might some function be preserved...
...next morning, TiVo had also taped Married with Children; Malibu, CA; El Chavo del Ocho; and Aqui Esta la Chilindrina. Not wanting to insult my new home appliance, and not speaking any Spanish, I first watched Malibu, CA, which is about the zany antics of a group of Baywatch-y teens. I'm sure there were similarly interesting plot lines offered by El Chavo, but I used TiVo's superfast-forward and stopped only on the cleavage shots. Muy bueno...