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...celebrity memoir, of course, is liable to allegations of self-promotion, but Blair’s story permits him one legitimate justification for publishing this nearly 300-page treatise: an apology. Blair does apologize, but he couches the mea culpa in so many excuses that he hardly seems repentant. Among his many rationalizations, Blair blames a hostile environment at the Times and an escalating addiction to cocaine. But readers would have more sympathy for Blair’s latter excuse, at least, if he didn’t seem to take pride in his vices. Responding to an editor...
Better Than Crying is a collection that includes essays, satires, and even some old Crimson columns. It unites a melee of political commentary and sardonic jeering. Each of the four chapters taps into a different part of the jilted contemporary culture Thurston constructs, and any given page guarantees at least one laughable sentence and a dozen opportunities to take a closer look at the appalling paradox that is the American media...
Thurston’s hodgepodge of comedic asylum is tough to stomach in one sitting. He says he wants the reader to be able to open up the book to any page and enjoy it. Fifteen minute doses of witty acumens should be more than enough to satisfy anyone...
...talks about Harvard,” he said during a respite from his cheering during the halftime intermission, while excitedly flipping to the appropriate page before declaiming once more...
...definitely feel like it’s an advantage,” Nelson said. “As far as knowing the workload they have, the classes they take [and] the expectations Harvard has for its students, I think I’m on the same page with that. I feel that there is a kind of Harvard personality. I can be sympathetic to that but also know how and when to push them...