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...Emerson on self-reliance, Mill on utility and Jared Diamond on the rise and fall of civilizations - one realizes the narrative has veered well past the claim that teachers shouldn't be saddled with a $20 million lawsuit every time a student decides to swallow a tack. The patient reader will likely find the intellectual detours worth hanging...
...There's something comforting about the meaningless hindbrain tension that The Associate generates in the reader - empty tension, the kind where there's nothing genuine at stake. Comforting too is the cozy quaintness of Grisham's little world. It's supposed to be a scary place, in theory, full of brooding criminals and impossible choices, but it's really a relic of the American past, one as sentimental and archaic as a Norman Rockwell painting. In a passage that appears, oddly, twice, as dialogue in two different characters' mouths, Grisham attempts to awe us with the high-level security surrounding...
...soon-to-be-defunct address on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue was perfect for the tone of classy depravity that the magazine tries to project and that made it acceptable to a more sophisticated type of reader who might otherwise be embarrassed to be associated with porn. This is not about the objectification of women, it said, it's about harmless fun. And some good journalism. But with the anonymity and impermanence of the Internet (no more telltale boxes of magazines under the bed), there's less appetite for Playboy's now almost coy-seeming nudity. A girlie magazine located...
...question, they loves 'em their Nazi exposés (The Reader), their civil rights martyrs (Milk), their Nixon (Frost/Nixon), who to the Academy voters is like Bush 43 rewritten by Shakespeare. All three films were finalists for Best Picture. And Doubt, set in a Catholic school in 1964, cadged slots for all four of the actors who didn't play kids or really old nuns. Note to the Academy: What have you nice folks got against really old nuns? (See Time's Top 10 Best Movie Performances...
...Blogs that used profanity were also excluded from the list. It is well recognized that traders are a notoriously bawdy bunch. And, unfortunately, a number of these blogs are incredibly insightful. However, our aim was to create a list that avoided offending any of our reader's delicate sensibilities...