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...desiccated exercise its premise -- doppelgangers, Identity vs. the True Self -- might suggest. The author admits that the subject of real or imaginary doubles has been pretty thoroughly and bookishly exhausted by everything from Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray to Vladimir Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight: "I knew all about these fictions about the fictions of the self-divided, having decoded them as cleverly as the next clever boy some four decades earlier in college. But this was no book I was studying or one I was writing . . ." Here a slight demurral seems appropriate: this...
...restrictions left students temporarily unwashed and thirsty. "I was lifting weights and I wanted to come back and take a shower and I couldn't. And I was thirsty." said Carey M. Knight...
...three times as high, the district is facing a grim decision. Next week the school board will discuss whether to buy life insurance for its students in order to make sure that funerals are covered. Since most of the students in the district are poor, district superintendent Charlie Mae Knight is seeking outside contributions to finance the insurance. Says she: "We have a community under siege. We have to take some action...
...however, Newsweek's portrayal of Bill Clinton as a knight on horseback conveys more hope than irony, whereas a similar picture of Ronald Reagan or George Bush would have been meant as a sneer at the president's delusions of grandeur. Perhaps some of this is due to the media's liberal slant, but not all. Both liberal and conservative politicians are routinely subjected to the sort of ridicule which Clinton is presently being spared. What, then, is the reason for this new optimism about politicians...
Should I for the sake of promoting "freedom of political expression" be forced to rent my property to a White Knight of the Ku Klux Klan, so long as it appears that he would be a good tenant? Should Cohen be forced to hire a card-carrying member of the American Nazi Party if he is qualified...