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...senses that his first book, Dreams from My Father, was meant to diffuse some of this vulnerability. In it he does not merely own up to his interracial background as if to a past indiscretion; he candidly explores it. And his brave self-disclosure succeeds because we no longer live in an America that wants to make mixed-race people into pariahs. That was once done to keep firm the racial boundaries of American apartheid--the mulatto's tragic exile standing as a cautionary tale meant to keep people "with their own kind." But today's mixed-race person...
...particularly artistic, churning out dance-singles one after the other until, for whatever reason, the music they made ceased to interest people. And then it was over. It’s still over. Duran Duran’s image was based on success; that they’re no longer successful renders any attempt to recapture the limelight virtually impossible. Other than the superbly catchy title track, which is in a state of perpetual crescendo, there isn’t a single track among the dozen on “Massacre” that successfully replicates their original, sublimely artificial...
...that Frances has a strong personality. She is loud, opinionated, and makes enemies faster than an over-eager prefrosh makes Facebook friends. In essence, she is exactly the person that we need to maintain a lively, adversarial relationship with student groups and the college administration. UC meetings would no longer stretch on for hours, decorum would be kept with the help of tasers, and UC skeptics and detractors would vanish in their sleep by her newly established secret police. Her aggressive capitalist tendencies will dominate student group financial matters, forcing student groups to be bold and innovative in order...
...it’s been happening since my grandfather’s time,” says Ellery Sedgwick III. “Starting in the late 19th century and accelerating under my grandfather during World War I the focus shifted away from literature—it no longer had a literary core...
...some 70% of European fakes come from China." Jain says India, whose growth, unlike China's, has been primarily domestically driven, is beginning to look more promising. "The E.U.'s calculation is that getting a firmer hold and greater market access in India will be more fruitful in the longer run," he says, "providing the enabling environment improves...