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...should have read Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. A motorcycle trip from Montana to California frames the narrator's flashbacks and philosophical musings in Zen. The narrator, Phaedrus, undertakes a psychological quest to restore the part of his personality that shock therapy obliterated. He claims that philosophizing about unresolvable issues drove him crazy...
...bringing the shock of joy back to baseball, both the Braves and the Twins deserve cheers. Or at least a toast. Bottoms...
...latest shock is the poor performance of one of Amex's youngest and most vaunted products: the Optima card. Launched four years ago as Amex's response to Visa and MasterCard, the revolving-charge card was perceived as a winner. But the company announced earlier this month that Optima (total card members: more than 3 million) had suffered much higher defaults than expected. The result: $155 million in Optima write-offs during the third quarter, which will produce a loss -- the first one ever -- of $50 million to $75 million for the company's Travel Related Services division...
...arrests in the civil rights movement. The majority of Americans were against the tactics of the civil rights workers, the lunch-counter sit-ins, etc. And yet those street-level protests produced political change. Frankly, the fact that 20% of the people polled liked our tactics was a shock...
...cancellation of American Psycho sends a message to the would-be artist- "sensitivity" and "decency" should be valued more than honesty. Ellis may not be able to shock the reader, or to show our society anything new. Americans are too far gone for that. But if Ellis can show his readers a mirror of themselves, his work should be available for those who are not afraid to look...