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...have the bruised, bloody indexes had enough? On the tech side, some technical signs have been encouraging, like the high volatility that accompanied the week's woes. That's supposedly a sign that the bounce wasn't just a knee-jerk buyback. And traders have been pointing to 3250 as a key level to clear. Today's close...
...keep this short, because I can't stand phoney people who just talk and talk about things. And you have to sit there and listen or else they will think you are a jerk. I mean, that just kills me and all. Anyway, school started again a couple weeks ago, and all the reading is just so goddamn depressing. And my roommate, Stradlater, is just so oversexed and all he talks about is necking girls until I just can't stand it and have to go somewhere else. So I went to the bookstore to see if they have...
...which is fine with me as long as he doesn't try to get me involved. Also he abstained from sex with Margaret's mother because of the advice of some Indian mystic. And I think that's pretty good advice because being oversexed just makes someone into a jerk like my roommate Stradlater. Speaking of Stradlater, all these stories sounded so interesting so I told my roommate about them and all. And he just made me feel so stupid when he said that a lot of these crazy stories had already been told in another book called At Home...
...easy for Harvard students, many of whom have overcome great obstacles in order to be accepted here, to look disparagingly at the pit kids' lifestyle and supposed "choices." What's hard is resisting the knee-jerk reaction to condemn instead of understand, to draw conclusions about character from outward appearances. There is clearly more to this story than skinheads and hate. As Sullivan said, "There are a lot of people at Harvard who want to help...but there a lot of people who want to turn their heads...
Indeed, when you think about it, the treatment of John Rocker by just about everyone provides an interesting commentary on our American social psychology. Because he has come across publicly as a backward, bigoted, homophobic, fascist jerk, John Rocker is, par excellance, a politically correct villain. Everyone is allowed--and even welcomed--to hate him (check out www.rockersucks.com if you don't believe me). And yet, as opposed to the WWF, where hating our enemies is a guiltless pleasure, Rockers villainy begs us pause. John Rocker may be a character, but he isn't playing one. He is a real...