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...reread Lise Funderburg's commentary on the new U.S. Census categories for race several times to make sure that it wasn't a tongue-in-cheek take on old stereotypes of African Americans and Caucasians [ESSAY, March 26]. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Funderburg actually attributed her "love of watermelon, fried foods" to her African-American ancestry and her "taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored" to her Caucasian side. Why would she connect such hackneyed, trite and superficial traits to her beautiful heritage? What about a strong sense of pride, survival or reflection? A person with the benefit...
...started reading the first chapter, but books that throw out a lot of names I have to go back and reread. So after the first chapter I didn't read that much...
TEATIME No wonder researchers had great hopes for green tea. It's loaded with powerful anticancer agents like polyphenols, which, in the lab at least, inhibit cell proliferation. Well, time to reread those tea leaves. A study shows that folks who drink five or more cups of green tea a day are just as likely to develop stomach cancer as those who barely take a sip. Don't toss out the teapot, however. Green tea may still protect against other cancers...
...lawyers droning for so long? The campaign itself went on for two years more than it should have, and the pettifogging afterblather is more than decent citizens should be asked to endure. I have pulled the covers over my head. In the month since the election, I have reread "War and Peace," interminable and still the greatest novel. No one ever described the fog of battle better than Tolstoy. I have lately been comforting myself with the Book of Proverbs, which I carry around in a pocket edition from Grove Press and dip into whenever I have had too much...
...times (whether they involve a stretch in the intensive care unit or a presidential campaign as painful as this one - which in my state of New York involves the excruciating burden of Hillary Clinton vs. Rick Lazio). I have decided that between now and the election, I will reread all of P. G. Wodehouse...