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...strange rite of reassurance: if man has the power to cause these calamities, maybe he would have the power to prevent them. The speed with which the commentariat moved from covering an actual storm to a political one-hurricanes don't kill people, inept bureaucrats kill people-suggests which subject is more comfortable discussing. Somehow human nature, even at its most disturbing, is less scary than Mother Nature at her most murderously cavalier, thousands dead in a single deep breath...
...Democrat Joe Biden tried asking Roberts whether a state could pass a law outlawing abortion, drawing from a question that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had answered at her hearing. Roberts said he couldn't answer, maintaining that Ginsburg had been freer to comment because she had written articles on the subject of abortion. Sen. Diane Feinstein tried yet another approach, philosophically asking whether the right of privacy applies to the beginning and end of life. Roberts again deflected. She then asked whether he agreed with the ruling in a 1992 abortion case, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, in which the majority specifically...
...came some poems, an opera libretto and ? nothing. "You don't know exactly what to write about next," Seth's mother, visiting from India, told him in 1994. "Why don't you write about him?" She was referring to another Seth family member who, improbably, has become the co-subject of one of the most remarkable biographies since, well, the 18th century, when James Boswell profiled Samuel Johnson. Boswell had it easy: Johnson was the leading literary figure of the age. But Seth's Two Lives focuses on people unknown to all but friends and family: Seth's great-uncle...
...time to ruin houses' and other buildings' insulation and wiring. Masonry structures will probably survive the flooding. The worst hit can be stripped back to the concrete, power washed and resurfaced. But a great many wooden structures--meaning most of the city's housing stock--will be bloated wrecks subject to mildew and collapse...
...than angelic? Or is she the amputee's perfect companion? In Slow Man, she's all of the above, and a wonderful literary conceit to boot. But most of all, she's a refreshingly down-to-earth symbol of that airiest of pursuits - creative writing, which is the real subject of Coetzee's playful novel...