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...disadvantage of depending on the library reserves, though, is that come exam or paper crunch time, you may find every single reserve book already checked out, or you may simply not have time to make the trek to the library. You might also like to mark your books, which isn??t allowed with the reserve copies...
...have I contradicted myself? No, because this circle can be squared. In the U.S. we idealize bipartisanship as if it were the same thing as moderation, when in fact it is the result of incoherent party platforms. Individual senators can cut deals with the opposition only because there isn??t any ideological coherence within their party. In turn, this empowers radicals because they aren’t pulled to the middle by a party line with broad appeal. And, of course, such shameless horse-trading produces ungainly, ineffective progeny—loose and baggy ideological bastards like...
...even when heavenly flavors don’t make it to my dinner table, I enjoy my nightly glass of wine. Drinking wine isn??t about getting drunk or anything else you happen to be doing at the time. The flavors are so various and so unlike any other food or beverage you can consume that it demands your full attention. The pleasure of drinking wine stems from identifying these flavors, savoring them in unique combinations, and doing so with a group of like-minded friends...
...Jesús offers them something new—Catholicism without original sin. Suddenly, Catholic guilt melts away and they have a voice, an opinion. Burning a Bible or a Torah may certainly catch my attention; I’ll even tolerate it. Yet the real basis of religious toleration isn??t really free speech, but mutual respect. Civil discourse, when it actually happens, is the bedrock of our society. Once religious groups start arguing based on reason instead of justifying their actions with the pretext of “faith,” they’ll earn...
...with his other leading roles, Allen’s Sid isn??t so much a character as an extension of Allen himself, a manifestation of the anxiety that ripples through the film’s director. For once, that anxiety might be justified: the end of the film suggests that, while Sondra’s brusque American charm could breathe some welcome life into the London elite, cynical New Yorkers of Allen’s generation might not have a place in European high society...