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...What is your motivation to write revised fairy tales? GM: I wanted to write books of ideas that people would read; I used fairy tales as a kind of bait and switch. I thought readers would think it would be relaxing, and they would not have to work too hard. But I also hope that without actually even noticing it, you have to think about the things that I have written about—the themes. I write books primarily about the themes and not about the plot...
...hard to update a story that everyone already knows? Do people get angry when you switch things on them? GM: They do, but I love it when people get mad. I like irritating people—up to the point where they go out and buy a gun, then I don’t like it anymore...
...polling consortium called Voter News Service (VNS) to cut costs, eliminating the redundancy of reports from multiple sources. But redundancy isn't always a bad thing, as proved, disastrously, in 2000 - when VNS (and the networks soon afterward) declared the race for Al Gore around 8 p.m., only to switch to George W. Bush at 2 a.m. and declared the race locked at "too close to call" two hours later...
...city, "repeaters" to visit the same polling place more than once, and "plug-uglies" (thugs from Baltimore) to intimidate voters all over the city. The fake voters exploited the names of children, the deceased, even fictional characters. In 1869, 21-year-old Thomas Edison patented the design of a "switch-and-lever" voting machine, but he couldn't find any buyers. The status quo suited politicians just fine...
...Classroom director Sharifah S. Holder ’10 and four CityStep teachers lead the 15 or so students in a series of dance exercises designed to encourage creativity. In small groups of four, the students switch among themselves to decide who comes up with a short routine to be followed by the rest of the group...