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...Simon's progressive politics, The Wire betrays a kind of small-c conservative nostalgia for hard work and honor, for shoe-leather police work, for reporters who pound the pavement, even for criminals who try to follow some kind of code. The Wire offers a bird's-eye critique of society, but it doesn't look down on individuals. Its heroes are flawed, fated people who try even without hope, who teach kids with horrid home lives, who try to kick unshakable addictions, who do the hard labor of investigations even when their bosses punish them...
...seek out the audience that will be most receptive to what you have to say - Wilkinson said the key to attaining "legitimate famo" is the same as it's always been: quality, tenacity and persistence. "If you want more than temporary fame, it's still about putting feet to pavement, about going out there and making a million MySpace friends and developing a following. There's a reason that the people who were online first are the ones with the larger networks - who have crazy famo...
...recalls, moments before leaving his Atlanta home for a psychology conference in California. "I took the train to Berlin and emerged at Mitte, the center of old East Berlin. I found myself alone on this huge square, except for a strange glow coming from a glass plate in the pavement. There was a small white underground chamber lined with empty bookshelves. On it was that famous [Heinrich] Heine quote, 'Where they burn books, they will end up burning people.' It was the monument to the 1933 book burnings. I looked up and saw I was surrounded by Frederick the Great...
...Israelis have perfected their radar for telling each other apart and for knowing when they've strayed too far into hostile territory. Every morning, I watch an Arab worker quicken his pace as he traverses to the Israeli side of my street. He lowers his eyes to the pavement to avoid trouble from Israeli cops who are frequently waiting there, checking IDs. On Hebron Road, he flags down a cramped, Arabs-only bus because if he boarded one of the big, air-conditioned Israeli ones, passengers might think he was a suicide bomber. For their part, Israelis avoid the Arab...
...presence. Yet, despite his size, he carries himself with an athlete’s grace—shoulders back, spine straight, and focused blue eyes. After meeting him, you can suddenly picture it: Davis guiding the crew team, standing on the diving platform, and churning his feet along the pavement. Davis holds the rare distinction of being a two-varsity athlete at Harvard. In the winter, he is a diver for the Crimson swimming and diving team, and, in the spring, he is a coxswain for the heavyweight crew team. On top of those commitments, Davis completed last year?...