Word: picks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with globalization is that it will not go away because we don't like some of its worrisome implications or its destabilizing impact. The process is irreversible, if only because of the information technology and communications revolutions. The problem also is that contrary to some illusions, one cannot pick and choose in the package. Even if many governments would like to bar this or that aspect of globalization, or slow down its penetration, doing so amounts to a rearguard battle...
...along with an influential endorsement. DON IMUS, radio's most popular curmudgeon, created the awards to counter the "elitist" selections of those other book honors. Of the four winners announced last week, two were selected by Imus and two by listeners, who voted for their favorites online. Imus' top pick was Freedomland by novelist Richard Price, who will take home $100,000. The other three winners (Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch, King of the World by David Remnick and My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki) were each awarded $50,000, a pile of loot five times...
...pricing is sweet. The Franken book on cassette, for instance, costs $12.57 plus shipping at Amazon.com But Audible's version costs only $6.95. Better still, you can buy a la carte stuff, such as Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues for 75[cents] each. The opportunity to cherry-pick content and exchange small sums of money online will become more and more attractive, to both consumers and authors. (I would happily read my columns to you if I got, say, a dime a download...
...native Rajasthan with the grooves that came vibing Eastward from America and Europe to kick up the wildest and funkiest corn you ever bought for a lark. Curried with additional drum tracks by DJ Josh Davis, the pieces preserve their essence of unbelievably tacky sexiness. It's hard to pick favorites from a menu so prime and juicy, but "Ganges A Go-Go" and "Punjabis, Pimps & Players" have to be right up there. As a bonus, most tracks are opened with splices of dialogue from old movies, and accents are always funny...
...Figure that her wheelchair is her legs. Would someone pick a person up and move them?" asked Lorraine Greiff, director of the Massachusetts Office on Disability. "You can't just take away someone's liberties by picking them up and treating them like they were a pencil that fell to the floor. Does that rise to the level of assault? I don't know, but I would say that it's as serious as pushing," she said...