Word: romanticizes
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Lucinda falls in love with her new home at first sight, and if The Quality of Life Report (Viking; 309 pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's...
When Bernadine Rivera and Kevin Campion get married next spring, they won't do it in Lomita, Calif., where she lives, or in nearby La Mirada, where he lives. They'll do it in Paris before a dozen friends and family members. Rivera, 46, and Campion, 47, plan to exchange...
Sociologists say the rise of an educated black middle class, the Sunbelt migration boom, "reverse migration" by blacks from the North and the fact that the U.S. military--most of whose bases are in the South--has become one of the country's most integrated institutions have increased opportunities for...
As for the Kashmiris themselves, violence has divided and scattered what was once a close-knit Himalayan community. In their giddier moments, Muslim Kashmiris dreamed that a magic wand would, with one swish, eliminate both India and Pakistan from their lives, permitting them to create an independent state. Hindu Kashmiris...
Indeed, at Harvard, the “veritas” syndrome is an epidemic. A Harvard education means one learns a great many things, but never are students systematically taught the most inspiring examples of human ignorance. University President Lawrence H. Summers, for example, thinks students should know the difference...