Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea behind Amazon.com was devilishly simple: type in a book's title, the author's name or even just a general subject, and the site will present you with a list of every matching book in its database. Choose your title, type in your address and credit-card number, and service reps at Amazon.com's Seattle warehouse will find your order and mail it to you, usually within one or two days, and often at a hefty discount. Three years after launch, Amazon.com has 2.25 million worldwide customers, and sales that may reach $350 million this year...
Since transsexuals burst on the scene in the 1950s, when a G.I. went from George to Christine Jorgensen, journalists have periodically revisited the subject in tones varying from the dryly medical to the hotly sensational. But today many forms of gender nonconformity have actually become mainstream. In the past five years, several movies, plays, tabloid shows and famous cross-dressers like RuPaul have moved drag from the fringes of gay culture to prime time. Even Teletubbies, a show for toddlers, features Tinky Winky, a boy who carries a red patent-leather purse...
...looked as if he were agreeing with me. In the interests of defending affirmative action, however, he has been more concerned with diversity, and the word integration is a code attack on identity politics and separatisms (I intended it as such). So he deftly changed the subject, only to be hit between the eyes by Chao, who was steaming about preferences in California, and by Rodriguez, who said he did not want to be a quota-system beneficiary...
...Roth is, of course, the now familiar IRA that allows savers to contribute aftertax money, which grows tax free and can be withdrawn tax free in retirement. Traditional IRAs are funded with pretax money that grows tax deferred but is subject to tax upon withdrawal. Here are three key corrections in the bill that relate to the Roth...
...impossible to think about civilization, responsibility, human possibility, evil--or, of course, God--without confronting Hitler. In this brilliantly skeptical inventory of the world's Hitler-thinking, Rosenbaum analyzes not only the multiple Hitler theories but also the agendas and fantasies that the theorizers bring to their subject. His book may be useful to the surprising number of people--Flat-Earthers of the moral realm--who, even now, refuse to believe in the existence of evil. To them, admitting evil's reality seems to empower the irrational in an intolerable way, to give it a certain vulgar, primitive mystification...