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Delbanco cites Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Wharton, Diane Johnson and Charles Baxter as some authors she admires, with Jane Austen her “favorite author of all time.” Though she defers energetically from comparing herself to the latter, Delbanco admits that much of her writing borrows from Austen’s techniques...
Whether legally sanctioned TV toplessness like Jackson’s comes before or after universal marriage rights is a matter for the networks and Congress to decide. The political necessity of the latter far outweighs the former, as the Massachusetts Supreme Court presciently ruled last week (but as Gov. W. Mitt Romney foolishly failed to recognize this week). Thank heavens the court isn’t comprised of CBS executives and conservative culture critics, whose regressive politics blame the woman and exonerate the man after the most widely watched sexual assault reenactment in the history of mass entertainment...
...would still download free music online, and they would do so legally. They owe their defiance to a joint promotion between the soft drink company and Apple Computer: one out of every three bottles of Pepsi’s beverages now sold wins a free song download from the latter company’s wildly popular (though thus far not terribly profitable) iTunes Music Store. If iTunes’ flow of publicity and technology awards hasn’t convinced critics that this unique business model represents the future of the music industry, a creative partnership like this one should...
Edwards' pitch to voters--that there are two Americas, "one for those who have everything they need and another for everybody else, folks who struggle every day just to get by"--works only if he can claim to know what it's like to live in the latter nation. And he can. His father Wallace, who couldn't afford college, worked in a string of mills across the South. (He eventually became a manager, something his son doesn't mention in his stump speech...
...facing a life or death situation, and it is now largely up to black people, especially the black elite, to decide whether they will take steps to be part of the solution or instead tacitly consent to the de facto genocide of our race. The temptation for the latter will be strong, buoyed by the enticements of material goods and popular sentiments, but we must be stronger and ensure that our progress is not erased by complacency and inattention...