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...chief pleasures of owning used books is inspecting their margins for the scribblings of the previous owner. Snide jokes, charming irrelevancies, cheers of approval and disapproval—all of these little things bring a kind of vicarious joy to the second-hand book connoisseur. But the best commentaries are the really, really stupid ones...
...first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. I heard this over and over again, never in a snide or gossipy way, always matter-of-factly. Apparently this was the way we Americans had to introduce Obama to each other. For some reason, knowledge of his racial pedigree had to precede even the mention of his politics--as if the pedigree inevitably explained the politics...
...Millions of people in France feel the same look from those on top," he says. "They need to know that the people giving them those glances aren't the real voice of France." With Bayrou's campaign ascendant thanks to such populist talk, his rivals' glances are no longer snide, they're nervous. Profile
...inter-feminist and anti-feminist conversation. The institutions are relatively innocuous compared to the implications made by the arguments, built precariously upon them, that often stand in for actual issues of substance. These imperfect scapegoats are, in many ways, an indication of the luxury feminists at Harvard enjoy: However snide and insidious is the sexism that feminists say they face, Harvard is at least forced to pay lip service to an equality of genders. Now, the challenges facing feminism are more de facto than de jure. It is fairly obvious that two-thirds of final clubs are all-male...
...coat or blanket. You may laugh now, but when you’re doing shots of some unidentified alcohol just to stay warm because you’re frozen to a stadium seat, you’ll wish you had thought to wear something under that hilariously snide tee shirt. Weather.com says it’s going to be 57 degrees at best on Saturday, somewhere between a heavy shirt and a jacket for most people, assuming it’s sunny.2. Your ID. Thanks to those charmingly-accented Boston police officers, you ain’t boozing without...