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...seeming abandonment of her theories on writing for the criticism of other works declaring that “I have learned that you cannot teach people how to write…all that is inborn, cannot be taught-but you can teach people how to read, how to develop judgment about a piece of writing: their own as well as that of others.” That idea is what separates Gornick’s book from the myriad of texts for would be writers and allows it to become an important tool for all readers looking for greater understanding...
...darkness. Perhaps I will come to regard my own 2001 summer—spent, like the summers of so many Harvard students, amid the topless towers and teeming streets of Manhattan Island—as a fleeting glimpse of a golden age, a vision of Babylon before the judgment of the Lord came upon...
...calling them “biased”? So officials may have preferred a powerful bureaucracy; did that disprove their contention that the war was the Emperor’s fault? Without additional sources to compare these to, without the ability to use them constructively in forming historical judgment, the charge of bias was no more than what Isaiah Berlin termed a memento mori, an expression of human fallibility and error with no historical content. Or, to quote Berlin once more: “One cannot cast doubt on everything at once, for then nothing is more dubious than anything...
...generally act according to their own interests,” “those without power envy those who have it,” “men seek honor as well as riches.” Those among us who view bias as an absolute bar to objective judgment would shrink from making such universal claims on the residents of a faraway place and time. Yet the ease with which accusations of bias are made instead makes this pop psychology the highest authority...
...cultures, cutting costs ruthlessly (the target is $2.5 billion by 2004) and cracking the services market. Compaq founder Canion, for one, is cautiously optimistic. "These are strong companies being judged in a tough time," he says. At the very least, his baby's new mom has managed to defer judgment for a little while longer...