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...nearly as colorful, for one thing. All of them, nevertheless, are part of a major societal shift: single women, once treated as virtual outcasts, have moved to the center of our social and cultural life. Unattached females--wisecracking, gutsy gals, not pathetic saps--are the heroine du jour in fiction, from Melissa Bank's collection of stories, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, to Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, the publishing juggernaut that has spawned one sequel and will soon be a movie. The single woman is TV's It Girl as well, not just...
...look at the iPhone as a laundry list of features and bugs is to miss the point (though if you did, the former would commandingly outweigh the latter). The iPhone isn't just the gadget du jour, it's a fresh new platform, an exceptionally powerful mobile computer that's still in its infancy. There's a full version of Apple's desktop operating system in there. The Palm and the Treo, et al., were merely harbingers of the era of true walk-around mobile computing that Jobs has just inaugurated. Hail to the chief...
Carter has successfully identified the hot social science du jour: Zant was a celebrity economist, a hybrid of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Freakonomics genius Steven Levitt. Zant was still hung up on Julia, and he left behind some coded clues for her to indicate who bumped him off. Meanwhile, the U.S. President is running for re-election, and Lemaster may have some dirt on him--they were college roommates--and the Carlyles' brilliant daughter Vanessa is obsessed with a cold case from 30 years ago involving a white girl who may or may not have been killed...
...campus with a collective personality that can at times seem whiny, over-inflated, and obsessed with being the best. Everyone must constantly lay claim to being the most tired, having the most pages due during reading period, and fuming with greatest intensity about the protest issue du jour. We demand to be heard on every issue and we are sure that, if given the chance, we could do it better than anyone else—whatever “it” happens to be. And, if you don’t let us do things the way we want...
...This doesn’t mean I don’t get a bit frustrated when the Eliot House e-mail list erupts into a “debate” over the political issue du jour, when some student group sets out to “solve” hunger, racism, war, and bad breath, or when someone makes a particularly snooty comment in class. Rather, I’ve learned to see—or at least tried my very best to see—this university’s multitudinous warts and annoying quirks for what they...