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...country is showing its forward evolution, that the color of one's skin cannot inhibit one's ability, and that's worthy of celebration," said Corey Booker, mayor of Newark...
...first hybrid vehicles by the end of December, even though it already has orders for 3,000 Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen hybrids. It's not clear at this point whether Chrysler will be able to fill the orders for the hybrids before the assembly plant in Newark, Del., where they are built shuts permanently, a Chrysler spokeswoman said. Roughly 5,000 salaried employees at GM also are expected to leave the company payroll by week's end as part of a series of cutbacks announced in July...
Portnoy (one always wants to type Porn-toy) was born, like Roth, in 1933; Marcus Messner, the hero of Indignation, is a year older. Like Portnoy, Marcus comes from a smotheringly protective Jewish family in Newark, N.J. ("You are a boy with a magnificent future ahead of you," Marcus' father tells him. "How do I know you're not going to places where you can get yourself killed?") Like Portnoy, Marcus escapes to college in Ohio, where he is baffled and inflamed by the attentions of a sexually unfettered shiksa. Unlike Portnoy, Indignation is a weird, flawed little book, full...
...Harvard Law School last night explored issues of protest and community organization with an audience from throughout Harvard’s schools and the local community. The film, a documentary originally produced for and shown on PBS in 2007, portrays the black community’s violent riots in Newark, New Jersey, in the summer of 1967. It goes on to discuss how “the plight of the poor is forgotten” in the history of the ’60s and in important modern policy decisions. A panel of current organizers in Harvard?...
...loving creator.It’s difficult to make the same case for Marcus Messner, the protagonist of Philip Roth’s 29th book, “Indignation.” As is now common in his novels, Roth writes autobiographically: Marcus is a young Jewish man from Newark, N.J., with a formidable intellect and an equally formidable anxiety. This anxiety first takes hold when his father transforms from a nurturing role model and friend into a fear-ridden monster. Fight after fight leads Marcus to relocate to the town of Winesburg, Ohio, and a college of the same...