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Delbanco’s style focuses on humor and Rosalie is wryly aware of all the events in her life, both tragic and comic. The novel focuses on everyday issues??employment, love, friendships, urban life—but Delbanco makes a point of creating a strong voices among her characters to keep the readers interest...
...safety committee rounded the last corner of its basement meeting last week, universal keycard access was gently brushed aside. The bigger issues??the SafetyWalk fiasco, police deployment, community advisories and the Cambridge Common—dominated conversation...
First of all, integration has nothing to do with the headscarf. They are simply unrelated issues??women who wear the scarf have a wide variety of relationships to French secular society. I would be deeply offended if my fellow American Muslims were called “un-American” simply because some of us choose to wear the headscarf. But even if the headscarf does indeed represent a segregation of communities, the ban will do nothing to help integrate France. In response to the ban, Muslim parents may take their children out of public schools and place...
...repercussions will be felt for decades to come. One may try to assert that a Democratic president would pursue basically the same agenda, but a comparison between, say, the Clinton and Bush administrations—with respect to fiscal policy, foreign policy, environmental policy and a host of other issues??simply belies this notion. Remember, for example, that President Clinton raised taxes in the first year of his presidency and left office with the budget in surplus, quite a contrast to the situation we now face...
While the Massachusetts ruling has drawn considerable controversy, Institute of Politics Director Daniel R. Glickman said that he believes the upcoming election will focus on “more conditional issues?? like the job market, the economy and the war. Instead, same-sex unions would be a battle of wills among Republicans, he said...