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...does not cut corners. It is easy to see how a younger writer, more enamored of punch and cleverness, might sigh at a passage like the following from “Under the Cloth;” “They cross the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey and go north on the Palisades Parkway to Rockefeller Lookout in Englewood Cliffs.” The cacophony of place names does nothing to move the essay along, and it might be argued that such attention to detail crosses the line into self-indulgence. However, this trademark specificity is what gives...
...Harvard men’s and women’s diving teams sent four representatives to the NCAA Zone A Championships this past weekend. The tournament, held at Rutgers University in New Jersey, featured 89 top divers from 24 schools, and the Crimson didn’t back down from rigorous competition...
...other hand, we see The Bachelor and The Real World and Jersey Shore and The Swan and makeover shows, in which women are basically cast as obsessed with men, obsessed with relationships and their bodies, getting into catfights over men they barely know and focused on hotness and shopping. Young women today are pulled between the message that they can do or be anything they want, that the world is their oyster [and that] full female equality has been achieved - and, on the other hand, there is enormous pressure to conform to this hyper-feminine ideal of hotness and beauty...
...would return home during the summer to get a taste of the real world, once working on the boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J., living in a two-bedroom apartment with four girls she’d never met (after being told that it sounded like “Jersey Shore,” she says, “That’s exactly what it was. Well, no, except for the guido part. It was actually a bunch of French Canadians, who I don’t want to offend...
Virginia's Fifth Congressional District is about the size of New Jersey. Sprawling from the center of the state down to the North Carolina border, it was once home to thriving textile and tobacco industries. But jobs have been drying up for decades; in the city of Martinsville, unemployment has soared over 20%. Outside such liberal enclaves as Charlottesville, the district is a conservative stronghold of farms and small-business owners who resent federal intrusions. In 2008, Perriello cashiered incumbent Republican Virgil Goode by capitalizing on an Obama-fueled turnout of African-American and college-age voters. And while Perriello...