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Jarrett is somewhat too syrupy here for my taste, too confident that we each have a voice of our own and something worth saying. Yet, there is an edginess in his tone that saves him from self-help literature and being anthologized in the Utne Reader. Listen again: "there's more to it than marketing themselves." This is sound advice from a man who has sold gazillions of albums...
Chain mail is generally abhorred by system administrators all over. The messages usually demand that once read, they be passed to at least 10 people or else the reader will suffer bad luck. While it appears that most people disregard these silly threats, a new form of chain mail is snaking its way across the Internet, and it is more troublesome because it strikes a chord of either fear or sympathy in the hearts of its readers...
Before you, the reader, get any premature ideas that this will be one more editorial added to a growing mountain of editorials and essays on affirmative action, randomization and race, I want to reassure you that these words are written only to help foster constructive dialogue and new solutions. All of the criticizing and vehement rhetoric that is volleyed back and forth between those with opposing ideologies at the University will not ameliorate the life of one single American or Harvard student. My aim is not to add further to the background noise that permeates the national and campus debate...
...league lawyer in the oval office, brilliant political practitioner, champion of better education for poor black children, husband of a woman who broke precedent and bravely crusaded nationally on one of the great social issues of the day, voracious book reader, shrewd observer who identified a massive shift in the U.S. economy and the job skills required to meet it, partisan of women's rights, winner of a knock-down, drag-out battle with a Congress that attempted to shut down the government and humiliate the President...
...Evita is part of this patchwork, and he mentions fellow Argentinean writers Rodolfo Walsh and Jorge Luis Borges frequently. He even discusses the opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, calling it precisely the simplification he wishes to avoid: "a sing-along article out of selections from the Reader's Digest...