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This promise of limited immortality is what makes annotating books so appealing. When I was in elementary school, all the dirty words in the classroom dictionaries were double-underlined—the legacy of some tough kid who had flouted the rules; afterwards, writing in books struck me as a minor but sordid crime—an impression reinforced by the prickly anti-annotation posters in Lamont. Reading used books has changed my mind. I have become an extravagant annotator, running pencil commentary up the margins and between paragraph breaks, covering every morsel of blank in the hope that, years...
...targeted for destruction because of what it represented—capitalism, free trade, material wealth, greed, power and even the secular, democratic way of life. The attacks represented a clash of civilizations, yet the terrorists struck at progressive society with products of its own technological sophistication. The deaths of thousands of innocent citizens going about their workday routines helped to elevate this disaster to mythic stature. Who could have conceived of being attacked while making photocopies in a normal office environment? This tragedy stripped away the fragile veneer of security and stability from our daily lives...
...rejects affirmative action and reparations for slavery and holds blacks responsible for their own uplift. Until recently, most left-leaning black theorists derided her as a hopeless optimist. Her previous book, "Black Faces, Black Interests," ruffled many black politicians by dismissing their fear that a Supreme Court ruling that struck down the use of race in the creation of majority black congressional districts would be a disaster. ?Instead, Swain predicted, the ruling actually would be good for? African Americans. As she foresaw, even in the Deep South? strong black candidates were capable of winning enough support from whites to prevail...
...there were problems with the theory. First of all, the foam may seem as hard as a brick, but it isn't nearly as heavy. Even if the debris had been moving at 1,000 m.p.h. when it struck the shuttle's left side--about twice as fast as it was actually going--computer analyses suggested it could have done little damage. "It's difficult for us to believe...that this foam represented a safety issue," said shuttle program manager Ron Dittemore. That, at least, was the agency's position on Wednesday. On Thursday, however, NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe...
Myrvaagnes says he was struck by the pain and passion in the man’s tale and with the other participants at Bread and Jams. Myrvaagnes scripted a one-act play about the man’s experience. They rehearsed and scheduled a performance for Oct. 2001 outside the Holyoke Center to coincide with the opening of a new art installation there...