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...time when ideological purity often seems to guide our nation's leaders more than any other consideration, it is almost quaint that a prominent public official would pay attention to his daughter's advice, no matter how informed. Vice President Dick Cheney, for one, appears unmoved by the views of his daughter Mary, a lesbian whose outspoken support for gay rights hasn't kept him from consistently backing right-wing positions at odds with equality for gays. Sure, he broke with the President on a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, but his stance that each state should decide whether gays...
...grab it. There was no question in his mind what he should do. He raced home and somehow found my home phone number. I didn’t know what to think. I had always thought that movies like “Pay It Forward” had a quaint premise but were hokey and fantastic almost to the point of absurdity. I had laughed with millions when Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer got arrested for violating the Good Samaritan law in the last episode of Seinfeld. After all, people always do what’s best for themselves, going...
...perfectmorning for awedding in tiny Dolgeville, N.Y. A soft breeze tames the July sun; birds do tremolos from above the clapboard cottages of a village so quaint it holds an annual Violet Festival. Beneath the narrow spire and wooden beams of the United Lutheran Presbyterian Parish, Carolyn Bergeron, 29, and Sujeet Desai, 25, are about to take their vows. "There is news today," says the Rev. James Paulson. "Love," he says, can't be stopped by cultural differences or different faiths. "Love can't be stopped by Down syndrome...
...Expanded to 96 pages, 18 in color, the second issue began by thanking subscribers for their support. The photo essays were of Paris prostitutes (clothed) and India's erotic statuary (too time-worn to reveal much detail). The premiere issue had run reprints of quaint old ads from the backs of men's magazines; issue 2 featured an antique patent submission for a male chastity belt...
...American immigrant narrative, bringing it up to code with the realities of our multicultural, transcontinental, hyphenated identities and our globalized, displaced, deracinated lives. It's a literature of multiplicity and diversity, not one of unanimity, and it makes the idea of a unifying voice of a generation seem rather quaint and 20th century. I may love and empathize with the transplanted Bengalis who populate Lahiri's fiction, or Shteyngart's semi-Americanized Russians, or Foer's uprooted Old Worlders or Smith's international extended families. But I would never be so foolish as to mistake any of them for myself...