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...guiltlessly enjoyed; it's easily the best pop album of the year. The contagious first single, I'm Gonna Getcha Good ("I'm gonna getcha while I gotcha you in sight/I'm gonna getcha if it takes all night"), is less a love song than Twain's declaration of intent to consumers, while Up!'s 18 other tracks back her claim with the kind of energy that reminds you how much fun the genre can be. If there's a weakness, it's that Twain is too busy standing everywhere to stand anywhere. Only she could write a song, Juanita...
...journey from poverty to stardom is all the more notable because Twain would have you believe she was never intent on taking it. "If I hadn't gotten signed, I would have done something else," she says. "I always wanted to be a veterinarian." In what must be a new achievement in both self-abnegation and repression, Twain swears that she harbors no resentment toward her mother: "My mother had a very difficult life, and when you're a parent and you can't feed your kids, it's gonna bum you out. So she had this dream...
...that art patronage, as once understood, no longer exists in today's America. People collect art, buying it for their own enjoyment. But spending millions on an inflated comic by Roy Lichtenstein or outbidding a rival heavy hitter at an auction isn't public patronage. Such patronage suggests some intent of public edification, and in the U.S.--thanks to its barbarously ignorant politicians and its media-sodden public--that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon...
...complete continuity in the program. And while the priority—or lack thereof—given to dance at Harvard is probably not due to any overt gender bias, the resulting effect will predominantly hurt undergraduate women. This neglect is discrimination “in effect if not intent,” to use a phrase with which Summers is surely familiar. Had the administration given this issue the priority it deserved back in 1999, the potential damage to dance could have been averted...
...simpler by the fact that nato - to whom Germany remains more indebted than France - is fading in influence. And both countries, having tied their fates to the euro, are keen to find better ways to coordinate budgetary policy among the eurozone's 12 countries. But behind the declarations of intent, big differences remain. France has increased its defense budget this fiscal year by 6%, while Germany is cutting back. Defense Minister Peter Struck last week announced that Germany would be drastically slashing its pledged orders of Airbus military transport planes and air-to-air missiles. France is cutting taxes, while...