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...feeling guilty, that maybe she could’ve made things right but didn’t. He remarried twice—both times to Catholic women. I hardly remember the first, Carol. She died when I was little. Fran was the second. She and most of her Polish Catholic family came to Grandpa’s funeral. Here’s one thing I know about me: along with the gefilte fish, I inherited a longing for self-control. In difficult situations, I can usually rein in my emotions. It’s not that I don?...
...digital precision, and even “mix-tapes” (now almost exclusively on CD) don’t have that basement low-fi growl anymore. The talent honed in dozens of dimly-lit teenage bedrooms is spilling out into independent labels, with amateur recordings that have all polish of their big-label counterparts. Even with rising production standards, “The Craft” still sounds positively sculpted. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it has taken their style in a different, colder direction. The album is the soundtrack to brushed aluminum lounges...
...population is falling and aging. Defending our social model doesn't necessarily mean working harder or taking fewer holidays, but it does mean working later in life, providing more opportunities for women and, especially, much better education and training. The real threat to European well-being isn't Polish plumbers, it's Asian software engineers and scientists. On the whole, European universities are underfunded and not well managed. We're so snooty about the U.S. and its alleged meretricious consumerism. But they're investing twice as much in knowledge as we do, which is really their investment in the next...
...fated henchman G. Harrold Carswell--this was not just about her; it was about him, about Bush's promises and the dream of a permanent conservative revolution. Of all the things a President ever does, this is the one that lasts: he picks the jurists who will chisel and polish the Constitution in ways that can affect citizens for generations. After 11 years had passed with no vacancies, Bush was given two in two months, with a 55-member majority in the Senate and a Democratic opposition that has no clue how to stop...
...Pekar grew up as the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants in Cleveland during the 1940s and 50s. As a result, much of The Quitter involves the classic American literary theme of assimilation. Though extremely popular in other mediums, this theme, again, has gotten little attention in comix except obliquely, through such genre works as Seigel and Shuster's Superman character. Thanks to Pekar's obsessive self-examination and what he calls his "trick" memory of near perfect recall, The Quitter takes its place as a top example of the New World Experience in graphic literature (see also the outstanding Four...