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...notoriously difficult to read large amounts of text on an electronic screen, so the Reader comes with a gentle, matte display that doesn't glow or flicker. Its frame rate is extremely slow, and the contrast is weak, but at least it doesn't make you feel as if your retinas were peeling off. If your eyes are weary and feeble from years of abuse, as mine are, you can even hit a button on the Sony Reader to make the text bigger...
...Google's all-seeing eye, books are a hopelessly inefficient way to store information. That doesn't mean books are obsolete. You can use Google Books to retrieve a single valuable snippet of information from a book, but you could never actually read a whole book on a computer screen. The Sony Reader isn't going to displace the humble book anytime soon either. Just to get Kite Runner onto the Reader, I had to charge it, find a computer running Windows XP--we're a Mac shop around here--stare down a cryptic error message and update some software...
...real numbers aren’t so impressive. The average household donates 3.1 percent of its income each year, or about three dollars a day per person. The average Starbucks customer also spends $3 for her cup of morning coffee. The extent of our consumer culture, from big screen TVs to name-brand clothing, belies our charitable spirit...
...unofficial rule of stage and screen: If you need an actor to tap-dance, hire Henry LeTang, fast. Over six decades, the soft-spoken gentle giant of tap ran a world-renowned New York City studio. Among his credits: choreographing films (The Cotton Club, Tap) and Broadway musicals (Sophisticated Ladies, Eubie!, Black and Blue--the last of which won him a Tony). He mentored some of tap's brightest stars, including Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Chita Rivera and Ben Vereen...
...said has come from his heart. On some issues, he argues, the landscape changed, not he. When he spoke out in 1994 in favor of civil rights for gays - a position he says he still holds - gay marriage was not even on the political or judicial radar screen. In other instances, he says, his opponents are finding contradictions where they don't exist. While his views don't in fact line up with the N.R.A.'s on every issue, he says, he has always supported the basic right to bear arms. "You can make the same statement, and if someone...