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These Hollywood-style celebrations seem meaningless even to East Coast Jews, so it's no wonder Israelis found them difficult to stomach. More than a celebration, they seem to be a cultural imposition of American ideals--of celebrity and ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which...
...perspective going into it that I wanted to do research for a company or organization outside," said Naber, a former Crimson executive. "I was bemused by an article I read in the Independent in which a fellow thesis writer was complaining and embittered because she felt that theses were meaningless...
...course, the entire novel is not completely meaningless. It is interesting to read about the narrator's adventures as she ponders the heavier questions of life, such as which men she should have sex with and when. No, really, there are some serious issues that are addressed in the book, but they are overshadowed by the dominance of superficiality--the great deal of time that the author spends living at a pensionaire full of international fashion models, the author's barhopping and picking up of various men, her obsession with a Greek basketball player who cruelly mistreats her, her rather...
...that we had been instructed on what we needed to do in order to find that meaningless someone to hook-up with, it was time to decide what, if any, passes we would buy. There was the $30 per person "Booze Cruise," which promised to get you as drunk as possible without inducing a coma and then dump you into the sea for some snorkeling. A friend who miraculously did not drown on this cruise later told me that there were no coral reefs where they had been taken to snorkel. I guess the event planners were hoping that people...
...Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. Let us remember why we have arrived at this point with Iraq. It is because Saddam and his clique have not kept their side of the bargain reached after the Gulf War. A signature on a piece of paper is meaningless. What matters is the character of the person signing it. History repeats itself. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan seems as naive to me as Chamberlain. Annan came back from Baghdad with a worthless piece of paper. PAUL MONTAGUE Sydney...