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Your decision to read this book (or not) will be influenced by several factors. There's the title and the cover art--though you know you shouldn't judge a book, etc., etc. There's what you may hear from friends. There's also this review. Obviously, none of this is a matter of life and death, but a decision will have to be made nonetheless. Sheena Iyengar, a Columbia University business professor and social psychologist, is concerned with improving how we deal with all choices. She examines decisions both minor--like choosing the beverages we drink--and monumental, including...
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...March 8, the Supreme Court agreed to consider whether certain types of offensive protests are guaranteed First Amendment protection. A case to be argued this fall, Snyder v. Phelps, involves the fiercely anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kans., members of which wave signs that read "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" at military funerals. The group and its leader, Pastor Fred Phelps, believe that U.S. troops die in combat because America condones homosexuality. Albert Snyder, the father of a Marine killed in Iraq in 2006 whose funeral was protested by Westboro parishioners, sued the group for inflicting intentional emotional...
...movie alights on this tragicomedy, if only as background chatter. It's true: you'll have to sit through all the end credits to read that this is a work of fiction. But that it is should be obvious from the middle of Green Zone on, when Miller starts proving that only one good man is needed to corral war criminals of every stripe. He'll be Bourne plus Philip Marlowe plus Seymour Hersh - provided he makes it out alive. The movie, in other words, is made up; Chandrasekaran's book has as much to do with Green Zone...
...read Brad Tuttle's article "Movies for Cheap" with interest, since Redbox, the DVD-rental company, is my family's new favorite thing [March 8]. I was surprised, however, that he and his wife stop at Redbox locations to check the in-stock availability of movies. A great Redbox feature is its phone app that supplies kiosk-location information and tells you which titles are available at individual locations...