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...Pakis, innit, u dirrty gora.") Its multiculti flavor has led to Malkani being hailed in the celebrity-hungry British press as the next Monica Ali or Zadie Smith in a line of hot young "ethnic" writers. Could any first-time novelist live up to those expectations? Well, the more serious gora (white) critics won't b callin im gr8, but Malkani does tell a lively tale. He also captures the soul of a subculture that has spread far beyond his hometown, a movement that, as the author illustrates, has much to do with a second-generation-immigrant compulsion to assert...
...Franken: God Spoke, by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus, is most interesting in revealing the similarities between standup comedy and campaigning: in both venues, the speaker needs to charm his listeners and stir them to applause (the manual version of voting). Franken is a serious guy with irresistible comic impulses. The tummler in him can?t understand why a top politico would advise him not to tell his favorite joke - one by Buddy Hackett, about a penis growing out of a man?s forehead - on the campaign trail...
Plagiarism is a serious charge. It should not be trivialized by failing to distinguish those who are innocent of it from those who have admitted...
...anonymous symposium participant wrote on the discussion board that “America is far too prosperous a country to have a serious civil war again.” Another wrote, “I see no civil war in the future...
...switch in public discourse away from the common good wasn’t entirely the product of Democratic decisions, a return to the common good may not be a simple matter of choice. Even if Democrats could return to the political climate of 1960, they would still have a serious problem: The Democrats may want to be the party of the common good, but I doubt the Republicans want to be seen as the party of private interests. At least not without a push.Republicans don’t wake up each day hoping to undermine the common good. But Republicans...