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...NASCAR fans, Earnhardt's death was a special tragedy, but for many other readers, it was also puzzling in its senselessness. "What caused Earnhardt to take such excessive risks--a desire to commit suicide in a publicly acceptable way?" asked a reader in Minneapolis. "Those voyeurs of violence paid their money fully expecting this kind of mayhem, and then shed crocodile tears when it happened," wrote a nonfan of NASCAR from Salem, Ore. "Shame on all of them." "If any other sport had a comparable death rate, there would be calls for legislation to ban the slaughter," declared an Oklahoman...
...terminally addicted to Clinton coverage? Um, well..."You complain that Clinton won't go away, but you won't let him, because he sells magazines," an angry reader in Boston griped to us. "The media's obsession with Bill Clinton is like rubbernecking at a car accident," observed a woman from Simpsonville, S.C. "Nice people aren't supposed to do that." A Las Vegas reader asked, "If you want Clinton to disappear, why don't you stop following him around?" And a New Yorker, who felt that TIME will never quit Clinton cold turkey, wrote, "I can only hope your...
...claims a firm foundation in fact. And although it might not be quick enough for the busy individual who is its subject, Faster is a fast read. Gleick creates a page-turner through his use of suspense. His chapters come full circle. Gleick is very good at carrying the reader through his profound arguments about time and its affect on us. His style successfully makes his abstract claims obvious and accessible in the small number of pages of each chapter. At times, however, Gleick sidetracks onto tangents, as in the chapter "The Law of Small Numbers" with its many symbols...
Forces of Habit affords the reader an in-depth understanding of the history of drugs in society, not tailored to a specific platform or program of reform. In fact, Courtwright mentions little about the future of drugs and the drug trade in his accounts, and when he does veer towards moral judgments, he states them simply and concisely. But if you're looking for a serious emotional scrutiny of present day drug issues, you'll have to go see the movie Traffic. Courtwright sticks to his historical format until the very end, taking only the final few paragraphs...
...title of the debut novel by Amy Gutman '83, HLS '93 (and former Crimson Editor) is not a term that most people are familiar with. It is an expression used among homicide investigators to describe an "ambiguous" crime scene, and a puzzling murder is what the reader finds in this novel...