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...novel from Pantheon, goes deeper. In fact, it goes "native." Featuring a story about an idealistic American living in Mexico and written in Spanglish dialogue, La Perdida examines what is increasingly becoming a major cultural shift in the U.S. by looking at it from the other side. Like a mirror image, the themes of the book reflect those with which America struggles: the clash of language, culture and class...
...walk their journeys of faith together. Call them parallel lines; it’s not that they never meet, it’s that they both have things to do. That won’t last, if the current leadership has anything to do with it.LIKE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR?“The lynchpin” of HRCF, Bryant says, “is Christianity. The idea is to understand Christianity, and its implications for our life and our community.” Most of this work is done in small groups which meet for about an hour...
...know: bet on the home dog (the underdog playing on its own field). As we?ve been saying in the magazine and online the past few weeks, Los Angeles is the company town of the movie business, and Crash is the ultimate L.A. movie-anyway, the gaudiest freeway funhouse mirror. Besides, this huge ensemble effort employed close to a hundred L.A. actors. As Stewart urged the crowd in his opening monologue, ?Raise your hands if you were not in Crash...
...Which of course is what makes it so politically risky, given an ambivalent public that prefers to restrict abortion than ban it outright. It is almost a mirror image of the challenge faced by abortion-rights activists when they are called upon to defend late-term abortions. Except in cases where the mother?s safety is at risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions...
...OWEN CHAMBERLAIN, 85, Nobel-prizewinning physicist at the University of California, Berkeley; in Berkeley, Calif. Chamberlain worked on the Manhattan Project and later apologized to the Japanese for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. In 1955, he and fellow Manhattan Project alum Emilio Segre identified the antiproton, the negatively charged mirror of the subatomic particle, a discovery that sparked still unresolved debates about the composition of the universe...