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...novel “Pnin,” Vladimir Nabokov—no stranger to “lexical commingling”—persistently described the title character in a series of epithets (“polite Pnin,” “brave Pnin” etc). Alexander’s narrator has a similar obsession for self-characterization. “Subnormal,” “heteromorphic,” “perpetual like Assyrian cups,” “not like Odysseus” or Vasco da Gama...
...economic level, reform includes inherently sacrificial effort. Welcome or not, redistribution of our fixed resources to a wider group must inconvenience at least some people. Whether through higher taxes, increased premiums, or longer wait times, Americans will suffer at least marginally to provide medical care for a stranger...
...inaction hurts the uninsured, precisely because the currently comfortable might intend no harm, this complaint proves relevant but non-essential. In our modern mindset, sacrifice for the sake of another is obviously an act above and beyond the call of duty. We applaud the person who sacrifices for the stranger dying in the street, but we do not force others to follow suit. To the reform obstructionist who sees universal health care as a type of forced charity, society can say nothing and must even remain silent...
...Nepal is no stranger to people seeking shelter in its borders. Nearly 87,000 Bhutanese are now living in UNHCR-run refugee camps in southeastern Nepal, having fled the tiny kingdom of Bhutan after government policy stripped them of Bhutanese citizenship. And more than 10,000 Tibetan refugees have been living in Pokhara, a western tourist town, and on the outskirts of Kathamndu since 1959 after the Chinese occupation of Tibet led to the eviction of several Tibetans, including their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. But apart from these two groups, the government of Nepal - which is not a signatory...
...globe, it is easy to imagine someone becoming embroiled in something dangerous there. Connelly, a former Los Angeles Times crime reporter who spent years milling about crime scenes and interviewing victims, says he chose to set a major part of the book in Chungking Mansions because, as a stranger, it is the type of place "where you want to look over your shoulder...