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...many times. We all have an exceptional aptitude for academics, but we are not gods or royalty. The student in the crepe shop, like so many here, had clearly forgotten the distinction between a high SAT score and divine right. To be fair, Harvard has done nothing to remind...
...events in Zimbabwe remind me of the plight of white farmers in South Africa who are being attacked at an alarming rate. Most of them end up dead, while from what I have read, the attacker has only a small chance of getting caught. DANTE M. STRAUCH Pretoria...
...terms what is an age-old cultural problem: that all the globalism in the world does not erase (and may in fact intensify) the differences between us. Corporate bodies stress connectedness, borderless economies, all the wired communities that make up our worldwide webs; those in Chechnya, Kosovo or Rwanda remind us of much older forces. And even as America exports its dotcom optimism around the world, many other countries export their primal animosities to America. Get in a cab near the Capitol, say, or the World Trade Center and ask the wrong question, and you are likely to hear...
...back to the future! I constantly remind my middle-aged seminar participants that George Babbitt and Dilbert are not the quintessential Americans. Who are? Ben Franklin (the father of self-help literature). Ralph Waldo Emerson (self-reliance was his shtick, recall). Walt Whitman. And yes, motivational guru Tony Robbins. And yes, Donald Trump. And... Bentonville, Arkansas' Sam Walton... and Bill Gates...
...best journalism has always been: a way of showing the world in a new, true and sometimes unpalatable light, a fresh and direct sense of what we would like very much to ignore. The photographs in Inferno are, in their terrible beauty, both admirable and unforgettable; they will remind anyone who has stomach enough to view them that the world is still a nasty place, and that we should be thankful and mindful of our lucky lots in life...