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...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. The half-second delay when you press the turn-the-page button eventually becomes maddening, and you can't scribble in the Reader's virtual margins. Nor can you throw it across the room, should its contents displease...
...finally, Kwong’s notion that the Republican Party and the HRC somehow represent the “conservative movement” is self-evidently absurd. It is a political party, prone to pragmatism, geared to elections; the HRC is the talk shop to The Salient’s think tank, and I’d like to think there is room for both...
...July 1 at the library's Richelieu center in Paris, marks the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth and the 80th of his death. The show offers 350 scenes of a vanished era: quiet courtyards, bustling squares, manicured parks, crumbling cornices and balustrades, placid river barges and enticing shop fronts, as well as strollers, street hawkers and sleeping drunks. Many of the pictures have never been exhibited before, and all but one were printed by the photographer himself. Together they form an impressively confident and distinctive body of work...
...relentless that it inoculates the audience against being spellbound, training them to wait for the other shoe to drop whenever they see a moment of sentiment or magic. Every detail argues against seeing fairyland as something special, like the constant disposable-culture gags in Shrek, in which characters shop in chain stores like Versarchery and Ye Olde Foot Locker...
...Giuliani's strategic move is a textbook case of what economists and political scientists call "spatial positioning." It works like this: Picture a football stadium with a central entrance and grandstands stretching to the left and right. Two snack vendors set up shop next to each other at the entrance, where all the potential customers must pass. But suppose one of them moves to the right a little way to try to escape competition. The best strategy for the other vendor is to follow close behind, setting up just to the left of the first. That way, he gets some...